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Institute of Fine Arts. Known for. Curator, collector. Samuel Jones Wagstaff Jr. (November 4, 1921 – January 14, 1987) was an American art curator, collector, and the artistic mentor and benefactor of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (who was also his lifetime companion) and poet - punk rocker Patti Smith.
- January 14, 1987 (aged 65), New York City
- Samuel Jones Wagstaff Jr., November 4, 1921, New York City, U.S.
- American
- Hotchkiss School
24 apr 2007 · By Philip Gefter. April 24, 2007. Tall, handsome and rich would be one way to describe Sam Wagstaff, a legendary figure in the international art world of the 1970s and ’80s. Urbane is another...
22 ott 2014 · By Philip Gefter. Oct. 22, 2014. Not so long ago, photography was dismissed by the art world as nothing more than a utilitarian medium. In the mid-1970s, a photograph by Edward Weston, an early...
5 dic 2014 · By Deborah Solomon. Dec. 5, 2014. The mention of Sam Wagstaff’s name is likely to elicit a respectful nod from anyone who cares about photography. He made his mark in the ’70s, when he...
The little-known photographs of a pioneering photography collector; an artist’s project. in Features , Frieze | 01 MAR 11. Twenty-four years after his death, Sam Wagstaff’s reputation remains that of an iconoclast.
5 gen 1997 · DOWNTOWN CHRONICLES about Sam Wagstaff, the collector of photography who championed Robert Mapplethorpe. The aristocratic Wagstaff was born in New York in 1921. He transformed the landscape of...
21 mar 2016 · Samuel J Wagstaff Jr – a New York aristocrat, curator and Robert Mapplethorpe’s lover – collected over 26,000 photographs in his lifetime, of everything from grisly medical images to eerie ...
