Frederick Sommer
American Photographer · 1905–1999
28 works on LinkedCulture
The son of a city planner, Frederick Sommer was trained as an architect in Brazil. He began to exhibit his drawings in Brazil while still a teenager. His work was so accomplished that he was accepted to the architecture department at Cornell University, though he had not received an undergraduate degree and did not yet speak English. Sommer purchased his first camera around 1931 while he was in Sw
Works
![[Abstraction based on musical notes]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f157c97a-1c9c-452a-afde-cf14697bfb69/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Abstraction based on musical notes]
Getty Museum · 1951
Arizona Landscape
Getty Museum · 1944
Arizona Landscape
Getty Museum · 1945
Beato Saltador Alegre
Getty Museum · 1950
Chicken
Getty Museum · 1939
Chicken
Getty Museum · 1939
Colorado River Landscape
Getty Museum · 1940
Cut Paper
Getty Museum · 1974
Glass
Getty Museum · 1943
Hadrian's Villa
Getty Museum · 1961
Heraclitus
Getty Museum · 1964
Max Ernst
Getty Museum · 1946
Moon Culmination
Getty Museum · 1951
Musical Score
Getty Museum · about 1970–1975
Paint on Cellophane
Getty Museum · 1957
Paint on Cellophane
Getty Museum · 1985
Paracelsus
Getty Museum · 1957
Smoke on Glass
Getty Museum · 1962
Springfield
Getty Museum · 1957
Taylor, Arizona
Getty Museum · 1945
The Golden Apples
Getty Museum · 1961
![[Untitled: Cut Paper]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/2d5aa058-3e87-4d01-81c6-0dc3e91d1c89/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled: Cut Paper]
Getty Museum · 1967
![[Untitled: Paint on Cellophane]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3504e8bf-5d46-4671-9497-76993e5ec1f1/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled: Paint on Cellophane]
Getty Museum · 1957
![[Untitled: Paint on Cellophane]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e6170ca7-37a2-49f7-a695-bb66eac0c574/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled: Paint on Cellophane]
Getty Museum · 1957
![[Untitled: Smoke on Glass]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/0ca215d5-afe4-4b5a-9f83-6ac14551bc27/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Untitled: Smoke on Glass]
Getty Museum · 1962
Victoria and Albert Museum
Getty Museum · 1959
Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Infant St. John
Getty Museum · 1966
![[Wood and Violin]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d69ad44d-ce85-4dd0-9fdf-1eb62e86fba2/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Wood and Violin]
Getty Museum · 1973