Madame
Yevonde's work is not entirely unknown in the States,
although at the time of writing (April 2001), there
has been no solo exhibition of her work so far. Apart
from the exhibition 'Photography 1839-1937' at the New
York Museum of Modern Art in 1937, a number of the Goddesses
images featured in the exhibition 'A History of Women
Photographers' which toured New York, Washington, Santa
Barbara and Akron, Ohio in 1997. Some of the same images
also featured in the exhibition 'Rrose is a Rrose is
a Rrose' at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where
they were hailed by one reviewer as 'one of the major
surprises of the exhibition'.

There are three exhibitions of Madame Yevonde's work
scheduled to take place in the second half of 2001,
two of them in the States. The first of these will take
place at the Jan Kesner Gallery in Los Angeles, as part
of the LA International, from 20th July to the end of
August. This will be the first solo exhibition of Madame
Yevonde's work in the States and as such, is something
of a landmark. The second will take place at the Benham
Studio Gallery in Seattle, from the 17th September to
the 27th October. Madame Yevonde's work will be sharing
the space with work by Milton H. Greene, the Hollywood
photographer perhaps best known for his early work with
Marilyn Monroe and his fashion photography. The third
exhibition will be in Paris, at the Galerie Agathe Gaillard,
in November and December. The exact dates will be announced
later. During the course of a recent visit to the States
by the Yevonde Portrait Archive to introduce the work
of Madame Yevonde to some of the leading museums and
galleries, the degree of interest expressed was such
that there is every confidence that a major tour of
the States can be arranged.
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