William Eggleston

American | 1939

William Eggleston is an American photographer who was born in 1939. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Numerous key galleries and museums such as National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. have featured William Eggleston's work in the past.William Eggleston's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 16 USD to 1,875,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,875,000 USD for Los Alamos, sold at Phillips New York in 2025. In the past 12 months, his photographs have averaged 65,700 USD.William Eggleston has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The New York Times in August 2025.

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Featured for Sale

Okra Scale ,1980

By William Eggleston

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Untitled (Conifer ,1978

By William Eggleston

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Memphis, Tennessee (Red Cart

By William Eggleston

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Notable Lots

Untitled ,1970

By William Eggleston

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Untitled ,1971

By William Eggleston

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Memphis

By William Eggleston

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Okra Scale ,1980

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By William Eggleston

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Interior, painting of two ships - William Eggleston

Interior, painting of two ships ,1963

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Untitled (Freezer with ice bags, Kentucky

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Untitled (Santa Claus on window, Memphis

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Current Exhibitions

A Sublime Obsession: Photographs from the Hazlitt Collection

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA)

Tampa | Florida | USA

09 Oct, 2025 - 11 Jan, 2026

Cultured Commodities: Photographs from the Henry Collection

Henry Art Gallery

Seattle | Washington | USA

18 Oct, 2025 - 28 Jan, 2026

Past Exhibitions

The Kids Are Alright

Timothy Taylor, New York

Tribeca | New York | USA

27 Jun, 2025 - 01 Aug, 2025

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Articles

MoMA opens an exhibition of extraordinary photographs from the Thayle Threenhill Collection

ArtDaily 03 Nov, 2025

The Museum of Modern Art is presenting Time Travelers: Photographs from the Thayle Threenhill Collection, an exhibition of works from a monumental gift of photographs made in 2019 to the Museum by Robert F. Greenhill in memory of his wife, Gayle Greenhill (1936鈥�2017).

Stephen Shore Started Taking Photos at 8 Years Old and Never Stopped

The New York Times 23 Aug, 2025

Shore鈥檚 new book, 鈥淓arly Work,鈥� hints at the towering figure he would become in photography, a master of elegantly prosaic scenes.

Art Basel鈥檚 Soft Opening Belies Strong, Swift Sales Across Tiers

Observer 18 Jun, 2025

The 2025 edition of the mega-fair opened with a more measured tone than is typical, but some collectors couldn't wait to close on works by Rothko, Carrington, Kameya and Shahmuradova Tanska.

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Coverage

鈥� ..A native Southerner, Eggleston first began photographing his local environment in the 1950s, experimenting with black-and-white photography... 鈥�
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Gagosian Gallery, Paris

鈥� ..For instance, Eggleston's photograph of bags of ice in a frosted-over freezer (the sort one finds at a gas station or convenience store on the outskirts of town) initially reads as a study in the subtle... 鈥�
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Cheim & Read

鈥� ..Behind Eggleston's deceptive casualness lies an acute and instinctive sense of colour and form, and under his gaze the ordinary is invested with powerful significance... 鈥�
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Victoria Miro, London (Wharf Road)

鈥� ..Eggleston's works are characterized by the fact that they capture decidedly casual, everyday scenes that most people overlook, and yet are very painterly in their composition, with minute details that... 鈥�
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Scai the Bathhouse

鈥� ..When Eggleston鈥檚 color photographs were shown publicly in the 1970s, they ruptured public understanding of the medium, long-dominated by black-and-white imagery... 鈥�
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Corcoran Gallery of Art