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{{Short description|American gallerist}}{{distinguish|Peter McGill}}

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Peter MacGill is an American gallerist, curator, and art historian. MacGill is the former President of the Pace/MacGill Gallery,Robin Pogrebin, Time Capsule of ’70s Los Angeles Beaches From Tod Papageorge, The New York Times, July 12, 2022. which opened in 1983 on East 57th Street in New York City{{r|edu}} and was consolidated into the Pace Gallery in 2019–20.Roland Halbe, Chelsea gallery reshuffle: Kasmin expands as Pace/MacGill consolidates, The Art Newspaper, July 24, 2019.In 2006 he was the first recipient of the Harold Jones Distinguished Alumni Award at The University of Arizona.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

Career

MacGill graduated with a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1974 and a M.F.A. from the University of Arizona in 1977, where he was the first student to graduate from the MFA Photography program{{r|az}}. He began working in the photography world as a college intern at Light Gallery in 1973 where he hung Stephen Shore’s first solo show.{{r|az}} While attending the University of Arizona MacGill served as a curator at the Center for Creative Photography.Sarah Schmerler, Profile: Peter MacGill, Photograph Magazine, March/April 2011. In 2005 he was ranked 15th on the list of "The 100 Most Important People in Photography" compiled by American Photo magazine.{{r|amp}}MacGill is President of the Pace/MacGill Gallery,{{r|edu}} which opened in 1983 on East 57th Street in New York City. Although Pace/MacGill specializes in photography, the gallery has also exhibited non-photographic work since the mid-1990s.{{r|nyt}} In 1999 the gallery sold Man Ray's Glass Tears (1930–33) for $1.3 million, at the time the highest price ever paid for a photograph.Philip Gefter, A Thousand Words? How About $450,000?, The New York Times, March 13, 2005. MacGill has stated that the work sold for such a high amount because of its scarcity (only three prints were made).Michael Mckenzie, Eyeing Up Photography's Value, Art Business News, Nov, 2000. In 2006 MacGill set a new record when he bought Edward Steichen’s The Pond—Moonlight for $2.9 million on behalf of a private buyer.Antiques and the Arts, Feb 21, 2006.In 2019 MacGill established a partnership with RadicalMedia to develop a streaming platform focused on the history of photography.WEB, 2019-07-24, Chelsea gallery reshuffle: Kasmin expands as Pace/MacGill consolidates,weblink 2023-04-24, The Art Newspaper - International art news and events,

Publications

Publications by MacGill

• Irving Penn: New and Unseen. New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1999. {{ISBN|978-1878283870}}.

Publications with contributions by MacGill

• Rodchenko. Göttingen: Steidl, 2012. {{ISBN|978-3869302454}}.
• Irving Penn: Paintings. New York: Apparition, 2018. {{ISBN|978-0692140079}}.

Awards

• 2005: Harold Jones Distinguished Alumni Award at The University of Arizona.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

References

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