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ID: 500021682 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021682			Record Type: Person

Samaras, Lucas (American photographer, painter, and sculptor, 1936-2024)

Note: Greek American artist was devoted to using new forms and materials, working across sculpture, photography, performance, and installation. He is particularly known for his photographic works made by manipulating Polaroid instant film products, assemblages, and work with mirrored environments. Samaras was born in 1936 in Kastoria, Greece, and immigrated to the US in 1948. He began studying art history at Columbia University under the art historian Meyer Schapiro in 1959.

Names:
	Samaras, Lucas (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Samaras, Lucas (Dutch-P,NA)
	Lucas Samaras (V,display)
	סמאראס, לוקאס (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	Greek

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	photographer
	painter
	installation artist
	sculptor

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Kastoría (Kastoría regional division, Macedonia, Greece) (inhabited place) Died: Manhattan (New York City, New York state, United States) (borough)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

collaborated with ....	Whitman, Robert
................................	(American performance artist, 1935-2024) [500110594]

student of ....	Kaprow, Allan
..................	(American performance artist, 1927-2006) [500031037]

student of ....	Schapiro, Meyer
..................	(American art historian and teacher, 1904-1996) [500121208]

student of ....	Segal, George
..................	(American sculptor, 1924-2000) [500032575]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Samaras, Lucas (I)

Biographies:

(American photographer, painter, and sculptor, 1936-2024) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist, b.1936) ..... [BHA]
(Greek artist, 1936-) ..... [WCP]
(Greek artist, born 1936) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Greek sculptor, born 1936) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(American painter) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, born 1936) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Greek painter, born 1936) ..... [IMJ]
(American artist, born Greece 1936) ..... [MoMA]
(Greek painter, 1936-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

סמאראס, לוקאס ........	[IMJ]
..........................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Lucas Samaras ........	[GRISC, MoMA, VP]
............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Samaras, Lucas ........	[BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
..............................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
..............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..............................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50019364
..............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 69484
..............................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Art Newspaper [online] (2002-)
	..........	New York Times [online] (2000-) obit.

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