1990 New York Public Library; New York, New York
1991 Imaging Myths: George Hurrell; George Eastman
House; International Museum of Photography Roche-
ster, New York.
1998 Unseen Hurrell: Classics and Rediscovered Photographs
from the Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library at
the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences;(tra-
veled to Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego (1998);
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma Washington (2001))
Grand Illusion: Celebrity Portraits by George Hurrell;
Museum of Photographic Arts; San Diego, California
George Hurrell: Hollywood and Beyond; Orange
County Museum of Art; Newport Beach, California
2001 George Hurrell: Portraits of Hollywood Stars; Palm
Springs Desert Museum; Palm Springs, California
Seeing Stars; George Hurrell; Charles H. MacNider
Art Museum; Mason City, Iowa
2002 The Lost Photographs of George Hurrell; Hollywood
Entertainment Museum; Hollywood, California
Group Exhibitions
1980 Southern California Photography 1900–1965: An His-
torical Survey; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los
Angeles, California
The Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers; Mu-
seum of Modern Art; New York, New York
1983 Hollywood Portrait Photographers, 1921–1994; National
Portrait Gallery; Washington, D.C.
1987 Intimate Encounters: Photographic Portraits from the
Collection; California Museum of Photography; River-
side, California
1988 Masters of Starlight: Photographers of Hollywood; Los
Angeles County Museum; Los Angeles, California
1989 Candid and Studied: The Mexican Photographs of
George Hurrell and Macduff Everton; Carnegie Art
Museum; Oxnard, California
1996 Portraits: An Examination of Identity; Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois.
1999 Beauty or Truth: Hollywood Photography by Clarence
Sinclair Bull, George Hurrell, and Weegee; Bayly Art
Museum, University of Virgina; Charlottesville, Virginia
2000 Shooting Legends: Hollywood by Halsman and Hurrell;
Norton Museum of Art; West Palm Beach, Florida
Marlene Dietrich: A Legend in Photographs; Orga-
nized by the Goethe-Institut (traveling worldwide)
2001 Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–
2000;Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles,
California
Selected Works
Ramon Novarro, 1929
Norma Shearer, 1929
Joan Crawford, 1932
Jean Harlow, 1932
Bette Davis, 1938
Jane Russell, 1946
Natalie Cole, ca. 1991
Sharon Stone, ca. 1993Futher Reading
Christy, George and Gene Thornton.The Portfolios of
George Hurrell. Santa Monica, Graystone Books, 1991.
Stine, Whitney.50 Years of Photographing Hollywood: The
Hurrell Style. New York: Greenwich House, 1976.
Vieira, Mark A.Hurrell’s Hollywood Portraits: The Chap-
man Collection. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
Publishers, 1997.George Hurrell, Portrait of Shirley Temple.
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