Horst P. Horst

Horst was soon offered a position with AmericanVogue and moved to the United States. In 1942, he became a naturalized citizen. Over the next thirty years, he published Horst Photographs of a Decade; Patterns from Nature; Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens, People; and Salute to the Thirties. For the great part of the 1970s, Horst photographed for House and Garden. During the 1980s, Horst worked for Vogue and Vanity Fair in Italy, Spain, England, America and France. Among his most famous photographic subjects are Lisa Fonssagrives, Natasha Paley, Cole Porter, Elsa Schiaparelli, Katherine Hepburn, George Cukor, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Marlene Dietrich, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and President Harry S. Truman. Horst P. Horst died in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, in 1999.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY

Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA