# Todd Webb

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'''Todd Webb''' (September 5, 1905 – April 15, 2000) was an American photographer notable for documenting everyday life and architecture in cities such as [New York City](/source/New_York_City), [Paris](/source/Paris%2C_France) as well as from the [American west](/source/Western_United_States).<ref name=twsOctBE11>{{cite news
 |author= staff writer
 |title= Todd Webb, 94, Peripatetic Photographer
 |newspaper= The New York Times
 |quote= Todd Webb, a photographer who documented the everyday life and architecture of New York, Paris and the American West, died last Saturday at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. He was 94 and lived in Auburn, Me. 
 |date= April 22, 2000
|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/22/arts/todd-webb-94-peripatetic-photographer.html
 |accessdate= October 10, 2010
}}</ref> He traveled extensively during his long life and had important friendships with artists such as [Berenice Abbott](/source/Berenice_Abbott), [Walker Evans](/source/Walker_Evans), [Alfred Stieglitz](/source/Alfred_Stieglitz), [Georgia O'Keeffe](/source/Georgia_O'Keeffe), [Ansel Adams](/source/Ansel_Adams),  [Dorothea Lange](/source/Dorothea_Lange),<ref name="twsOctBE13x">{{cite news |author=Grace Glueck |author-link=Grace Glueck |date=May 2, 1997 |title=Dynamo Who Left Her Mark as Curator |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/02/arts/dynamo-who-left-her-mark-as-curator.html |accessdate=October 10, 2010 |quote=and Todd Webb's intimate glimpse of the photographer Dorothea Lange, known for her Depression images of the 1930s.}}</ref> and [Harry Callahan](/source/Harry_Callahan_(photographer)).<ref name=twsOctBE11/>  

==Early life==
Webb was born in [Detroit](/source/Detroit), United States, in 1905 and grew up there and in a [Quaker](/source/Religious_Society_of_Friends) community in [Ontario](/source/Ontario%2C_Canada).<ref name=twsOctBE11/> From 1924 to 1929 he worked as a [bank teller](/source/bank_teller) and clerk at a brokerage firm in Detroit; in another account, he was a successful stockbroker during the 1920s but lost his earnings during the Crash before the Depression.<ref name=twsOctfssaf>{{cite web
 |title       = Todd Webb (1905–2000)
 |publisher   = Luxury Bazaar
 |quote       = He had been a successful stockbroker in the Twenties, and then lost his earnings in The Crash that precursored the Great Depression.
 |year        = 2010
 |url         = http://www.luxurybazaar.com/subcategories/subid_1019_Webb__Todd.html
 |accessdate  = October 12, 2010
 |url-status     = dead
 |archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20101231114543/http://www.luxurybazaar.com/subcategories/subid_1019_Webb__Todd.html
 |archivedate = December 31, 2010
}}</ref> During the [Depression](/source/Great_Depression) beginning in 1929, he moved to California and worked as a prospector and earned a meager living.<ref name=twsOctBE11/> During these years he also worked as a [fire ranger](/source/Wildfire_suppression) for the [United States Forestry Service](/source/United_States_Forestry_Service). Webb reportedly wrote short stories which were unpublished.<ref name=twsOctfssaf/> After 1934, Webb returned to Detroit and worked for the automobile manufacturer [Chrysler](/source/Chrysler_Corporation)<ref name=twsOctBE11/> in their export division.<ref name=twsOctfssaf/> In 1937, he visited a friend in [Panama](/source/Panama) in search of gold, but had little success. But in Panama, he brought along a camera donated by his former employer, Chrysler.<ref name=twsOctBE11/>

==Career==
===Early career===
Webb returned to Detroit and studied at the Detroit Camera Club. He met photographer [Harry Callahan](/source/Harry_Callahan_(photographer)). In 1940, he completed a ten‑day workshop with [Ansel Adams](/source/Ansel_Adams) as his teacher.<ref name=twsOctBE11/> In 1941, he visited [Rocky Mountain State Park](/source/Rocky_Mountain_National_Park) with Harry Callahan, and realized during this trip that he was drawn more to the urban cityscape, and although he found Adams to be an inspiration, he would not make photographs like his teacher. During World War II, Webb was a photographer for the [United States Navy](/source/United_States_Navy) and was deployed to the South Pacific theater of operations.<ref name=twsOctBE11/>

===New York City years===
After World War II, in 1945, Webb moved to New York City and began his career as a professional photographer.<ref name=twsOctBE11/> He made key friendships with [Alfred Stieglitz](/source/Alfred_Stieglitz) and [Georgia O'Keeffe](/source/Georgia_O'Keeffe) as well as [Beaumont Newhall](/source/Beaumont_Newhall), [Berenice Abbott](/source/Berenice_Abbott), [Helen Levitt](/source/Helen_Levitt), and [Minor White](/source/Minor_White).<ref name=twsOctfssaf/> Webb began a remarkable project of walking the streets of New York City with his heavy camera and tripod and photographing people and buildings he encountered.<ref name=twsOctBE21>{{cite news
 |author= CHARLES HAGEN
 |title= Art in Review
 |newspaper= The New York Times
 |quote=  In 1945, after being discharged from the Navy, Todd Webb moved to New York City and began a remarkable project. ...
 |date= September 22, 1995
|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/22/arts/art-in-review-761095.html
 |accessdate= October 10, 2010
}}</ref> What set these photos apart was their "straightforward, descriptive clarity" even though they were often of familiar views.<ref name=twsOctBE21/> One large 10-foot–long panorama photograph which was critically acclaimed<ref name=twsOctBE32>{{cite news
 |author= Bob Keyes
 |title= Photographer's estate updates, improves website
 |publisher= Maine Sunday Telegram
 |quote= The estate of Todd Webb announced a recent refurbishment of its website, toddwebbphotographs.com. ...
 |date= May 30, 2010
|url= http://www.pressherald.com/life/audience/arts-dispatches_2010-05-30.html
 |accessdate= October 10, 2010
}}</ref> showed a section of [Sixth Avenue](/source/Sixth_Avenue_(Manhattan)) from 43rd–44th streets which, in 1991, was seen as a "visual time capsule of the city" and was described as a "stunner."<ref name=twsOctBE24>{{cite news
 |author= CHARLES HAGEN
 |title= Art in Review
 |newspaper= The New York Times
 |quote= The stunner of the show, though, is a 10-foot-long panorama by Todd Webb from 1948 that depicts, in its entirety, Sixth Avenue between 43d and 44th Streets.
 |date= December 27, 1991
|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/27/arts/art-in-review-035391.html
 |accessdate= October 10, 2010
}}</ref> Webb's photos reflected the photographer's sense of discovery and captured the times, such as photos of hand-painted banners over apartment house doors saying "Welcome Home, G.I.s".<ref name=twsOctBE21/> In one photograph, Webb went to the top of the RCA Building and shot south using a backlit technique, which captured the [Empire State Building](/source/Empire_State_Building) at night.<ref name=twsOctBE23>{{cite news
 |author= WILLIAM MEYERS
 |title= The Other City of Lights
 |newspaper= The New York Sun
 |quote= The Empire State Building ... It is also seen backlit in Todd Webb's "South From the Top of the RCA Building" (1945)
 |date= December 27, 2007
|url= http://www.nysun.com/arts/other-city-of-lights/68638/
 |accessdate= October 10, 2010
}}</ref> The best photographs, according to ''[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)'' art critic Charles Hagen, contained the "simple geometries of urban architecture" in a "simple elegance"; Hagen thought Webb's New York City photographs were his best.<ref name=twsOctBE21/> In 1946, he had his first solo exhibition of his photographs at the [Museum of the City of New York](/source/Museum_of_the_City_of_New_York).

In 1947, Webb was hired by [Fortune](/source/Fortune_(magazine)) magazine<ref name=twsOctfssaf/> and he worked with professional photographers funded by the [Standard Oil Company](/source/Exxon) led by Roy Stryker and the group included notable photographers such as [Sol Libsohn](/source/Photo_League).<ref name=twsOctBE12>{{cite news
 |author= SYLVIA NASAR
 |title= Sol Libsohn, 86, Photographer Who Captured Ordinary Life
 |newspaper= The New York Times
 |quote= Libsohn joined a team of photographers at Standard Oil Company ... The team, led by Roy Stryker, included, apart from Mr. Libsohn, Gordon Parks, Esther Bubley, Russell Lee, John Vachon and Todd Webb and was given amazingly free rein by its corporate sponsor. 
 |date= January 25, 2001
|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/25/arts/sol-libsohn-86-photographer-who-captured-ordinary-life.html
 |accessdate= October 10, 2010
}}</ref> According to the ''[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)'', the team of professional photographers was "given amazingly free rein by its corporate sponsor" to produce a documentary about oil.<ref name=twsOctBE12/> One of these photographs, Webb's ''Pittsburgh Panorama'' (ca. 1950) shows a grim industrial view towards [Pittsburgh](/source/Pittsburgh) from a hill near [Westinghouse Bridge](/source/George_Westinghouse_Bridge) that takes in a bare river valley across which snake highways and railways and a row of tall smokestacks in the distance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/f/fortune/AAR/18.jpeg|title=Pittsburgh Panorama (Standard Oil)|last=Webb|first=Todd|date=|website=The Visual Telling of Stories|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | author1=Steven Wright Plattner| author2=Esther Bubley | author3=Roy Emerson Stryker | title=Roy Stryker, U.S.A., 1943–1950 : the Standard Oil (New Jersey) photography project | date=1983 | publisher=University of Texas Press | edition=1st | isbn=978-0-292-77028-7 }}</ref> Curator [Edward Steichen](/source/Edward_Steichen) selected it for the 1955 [Museum of Modern Art](/source/Museum_of_Modern_Art) exhibition ''[The Family of Man](/source/The_Family_of_Man)'', seen by 9 million visitors on its world tour.<ref>{{Cite book | author1=Edward Steichen  | author2=Carl Sandburg| author3=Dorothy Norman  | author4=Leo Lionni  | author5=Jerry Mason  | author6=Ezra Stoller| title=The family of man: The photographic exhibition | date=1955 | publisher=Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10809600 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | editor1=Gerd Hurm | editor2=Anke Reitz | editor3=Shamoon Zamir| title=The family of man revisited : photography in a global age | date=2018 | publisher=London I.B.Tauris | isbn=978-1-78672-297-3 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Eric J. Sandeen  | title=Picturing an exhibition : the family of man and 1950s America | date=1995 | publisher=University of New Mexico Press | edition=1st | isbn=978-0-8263-1558-8 }}</ref> However, in his memoir, Webb records his disappointment with the way images were "over-enlarged to billboard size" losing "all the qualities that make photographs unique."<ref>{{Cite book | author1=Webb, Todd | title=Looking back : memoirs and photographs | date=1991 | publisher=University of New Mexico Press | edition=1st | isbn=978-0-8263-1294-5 }}</ref>

Webb traveled to [Paris](/source/Paris), France, in 1949 and married fellow American Lucille Minqueau.<ref name=twsOctBE11/> In Paris, Webb produced a "vivid record" of the city which earned him recognition.<ref name=twsOctBE11/> Then, Webbs moved back to New York City to live in [Greenwich Village](/source/Greenwich_Village) in 1952. 

===1955–1956, walking across America===
In 1955, he was awarded a [Guggenheim Fellowship](/source/Guggenheim_Fellowship) to photographically record pioneer trails of early settlers of the western United States. During that year he walked from New York City to San Francisco. 

===1957–1958, United Nations and Africa===
Webb was hired in 1957 by the United Nations to photograph its [General Assembly](/source/General_Assembly_of_the_United_Nations). He won a contract to photograph Sub–Saharan Africa in 1958. Over the course of six months, he photographed extensively in Ghana, Sudan, Togo, Somalia, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. These rich color images were published in 2021 as a book to complement the exhibition at the [Minneapolis Institute of Art](/source/Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art) titled ''Todd Webb in Africa, Outside the Frame''.

===O'Keeffe years===
The Webbs moved to [Santa Fe](/source/Santa_Fe%2C_New_Mexico) in [New Mexico](/source/New_Mexico) around 1961.<ref name=twsOctBE11/> Webb's photos of his friend Georgia O'Keeffe suggested not only a "loner, severe figure and self-made person" but that there was an "intense connection" between Webb and O'Keeffe.<ref name=twsOctBE15>{{cite news
 |author= MICHAEL KILIAN
 |title= Santa Fe exhibit paints a different picture of O'Keeffe
 |newspaper= Chicago Tribune
 |quote= But Santa Fe's Georgia O'Keeffe Museum ...  close and longtime friend, photographer Todd Webb (1905–2000), ...
 |date= August 1, 2002
|url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/08/01/santa-fe-exhibit-paints-a-different-picture-of-okeeffe/
 |access-date= October 10, 2010
}}</ref> While O'Keeffe was known to have a "prickly personality", Webb's photographs portray her with a kind of "quietness and calm" suggesting a relaxed friendship, and revealing new contours of O'Keeffe's character.<ref name=twsOctBE22>{{cite news
 |author= WILLIAM ZIMMER
 |title= ART; Exploring the Affinities Among Painting, Music and Dance
 |newspaper= The New York Times
 |quote= O'Keeffe and Webb had known each other for a long time when he began to photograph her in the mid-1980s....
 |date= December 31, 2000
|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/31/nyregion/art-exploring-the-affinities-among-painting-music-and-dance.html
 |accessdate= October 10, 2010
}}</ref> Webb's landscape photographs as well as photos of the artist walking among the sagebrush bring O'Keeffe to life "even in pictures where she doesn't appear", according to ''[Chicago Tribune](/source/Chicago_Tribune)'' art critic Abigail Foerstner.<ref name=twsOctBE25>{{cite news
 |author= Abigail Foerstner
 |title= Books For Photographers, Fans
 |newspaper= Chicago Tribune
 |quote= ''Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape'' (Twelve Trees Press, $45): Todd Webb's dramatic landscapes and scenes at O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch ...
 |date= December 5, 1986
|url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/12/05/books-for-photographers-fans/
 |access-date= October 10, 2010
}}</ref> His photos suggest an "ageless spirit" which was "weathered and indomitable" like desert rock formations.<ref name=twsOctBE26>{{cite news
 |author= Abigail Foerstner
 |title= Six Artists Portray The Real And The Mythical American West
 |newspaper= Chicago Tribune
 |quote= Webb photographed his friend O'Keeffe for years during the summers ...
 |date= September 7, 1990
|url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/09/07/six-artists-portray-the-real-and-the-mythical-american-west/
 |access-date= October 10, 2010
}}</ref> These photos were done using matte finish paper and appear in a book entitled ''Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape''.<ref name=twsOctBE25/>

===Later years===
The Webbs lived in the [Provence](/source/Provence%2C_France) region of France, around 1970, and he continued to photograph regularly, and later lived, for a period, in [Bath](/source/Bath%2C_England), England.<ref name=twsOctBE11/> The Webbs finally settled in the state of [Maine](/source/Maine), living in the city of [Portland](/source/Portland%2C_Maine), based on the suggestion of a friend.<ref name=twsOctBE11/> In 1978, Webb won a grant from the [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts), and continued to live and work in Maine. Webb died in 2000 in [Lewiston, Maine](/source/Lewiston%2C_Maine).<ref name=twsOctBE11/>

===Legacy===
Todd Webb's photographs have been displayed in 25 major museum collections including the [MOMA](/source/Museum_of_Modern_Art) in New York, and the [National Gallery of Art](/source/National_Gallery_of_Art) in Washington, D.C.<ref name=twsOctBE11/> Webb's photographic archive is located in Portland, Maine, where reproduction rights and sales of his prints are managed.

In 2006, the [Hallmark Greeting Cards Corporation](/source/Hallmark_Cards) acquired at least 161 of Webb's photographs, and in 2006 decided to give them away in a generous donation to the [Nelson-Atkins Museum](/source/Nelson-Atkins_Museum_of_Art) in [Kansas City](/source/Kansas_City%2C_Missouri).<ref name=twsOctBE14>{{cite news
 |author= KATHRYN SHATTUCK
 |title= For a Dear Museum: Love, Hallmark
 |newspaper= The New York Times
 |quote= Last month the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ... 161 by Todd Webb;
 |date= February 18, 2006
|url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E6DA103EF93BA25751C0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
 |accessdate= October 10, 2010
}}</ref>

In 2017, the Todd Webb Archive refurbished its website with biographical data, collection information, and a column regarding news events.
In April 2017, an exhibition titled "A City Seen" opened at the Museum of the City of New York. Curated by Sean Corcoran, the exhibit was a comprehensive survey of Webb's work in New York during the 1940s. The book ''I See a City: Todd Webb's New York'' ([Thames & Hudson](/source/Thames_%26_Hudson), 2017) was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Webb's estate is managed by Betsy Evans Hunt who serves as the Executive Director of the Todd Webb Archive.{{fact|date=November 2022}} In 2026, Webb's estate was acquired by the MUUS Collection<ref>{{Cite web |title=MUUS Collection |url=https://www.muuscollection.com/news/acquisition-announcement-the-todd-webb-archive |access-date=2026-05-13 |website=MUUS Collection |language=en}}</ref>.

==Awards==
Webb was awarded the following:{{fact|date=November 2022}}

* [Guggenheim Fellowship](/source/Guggenheim_Fellowship), 1955 & 1956
* [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts) Grant, 1978

==Publications==
The following publications relate to Todd Webb:{{fact|date=November 2022}}

* ''Gold Strikes and Ghost Towns'', Doubleday Press, 1961
* ''The Gold Rush Trails and The Road To Oregon'', Doubleday Press, 1963
* ''Nineteenth Century Texas Homes'', [University of Texas Press](/source/University_of_Texas_Press), 1966
* ''Todd Webb/Photographs'', The [Amon Carter Museum](/source/Amon_Carter_Museum)
* ''Georgia O'Keeffe, The Artist's Landscape'', Twelve Trees Press, 1984<ref name=twsOctBE25/>
* ''Todd Webb: Photographs of New York and Paris'', [Hallmark Cards](/source/Hallmark_Cards), 1996
* ''Looking Back; Memoirs and Photographs'', [University of New Mexico](/source/University_of_New_Mexico), 1991
* ''Todd Webb: New York, 1946'', 21st Editions, 2015
* ''I See a City: Todd Webb's New York'', [Thames & Hudson](/source/Thames_%26_Hudson), 2017
* ''Todd Webb in Africa, Outside the Frame'', Thames & Hudson, 2021

==Collections==
Webb's work is in the following collections:{{fact|date=November 2022}}

* [Addison Gallery of American Art](/source/Addison_Gallery_of_American_Art), Andover, Massachusetts
* [Akron Art Museum](/source/Akron_Art_Museum), Akron, Ohio
* [Allentown Art Museum](/source/Allentown_Art_Museum), Allentown, Pennsylvania
* The [American Embassy, Paris](/source/American_Embassy%2C_Paris), France
* [Amon Carter Museum](/source/Amon_Carter_Museum), Fort Worth, Texas
* [Biblioteque Nationale](/source/Biblioteque_Nationale), Paris, France
* [Bowdoin College Museum of Art](/source/Bowdoin_College_Museum_of_Art), Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
* [Boston Athenaeum](/source/Boston_Athenaeum), Boston, Massachusetts
* [Carnegie Museum](/source/University_of_Maine_Museum_of_Art), [University of Maine at Orono](/source/University_of_Maine_at_Orono), Orono, Maine{{fact|date=November 2022}}
* [Center for Creative Photography](/source/Center_for_Creative_Photography), Tucson, Arizona
* [Chicago Art Institute](/source/Chicago_Art_Institute), Chicago, Illinois
* [Colby College Art Museum](/source/Colby_College_Art_Museum), Waterville, Maine
* [Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art](/source/Crystal_Bridges_Museum_of_American_Art), Bentonville, Arkansas
* The [David Winton Bell Gallery](/source/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery) at [Brown University](/source/Brown_University), Providence, Rhode Island
* [Denver Art Museum](/source/Denver_Art_Museum), Denver, Colorado
* [George Eastman House](/source/George_Eastman_House), Rochester, New York
* [Georgia O’Keeffe Museum](/source/Georgia_O%E2%80%99Keeffe_Museum), Santa Fe, New Mexico
* The [J. Paul Getty Museum](/source/J._Paul_Getty_Museum), Los Angeles, California
* [Graham Nash Collection](/source/Graham_Nash_Collection), Los Angeles, California
* [Henry Art Gallery](/source/Henry_Art_Gallery), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
* [Historic New Orleans Collection & Archives of American Art](/source/Historic_New_Orleans_Collection_%26_Archives_of_American_Art), New Orleans, Louisiana
* [Institute of Art, Detroit](/source/Institute_of_Art%2C_Detroit), Michigan
* The [International Center of Photography](/source/International_Center_of_Photography), New York City
* [Judy and Leonard Lauder Collection](/source/Judy_and_Leonard_Lauder_Collection), New York City
* [Lehigh University Art Gallery](/source/Lehigh_University_Art_Gallery), Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
* [Los Angeles County Museum of Art](/source/Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art), Los Angeles, California
* [Metropolitan Museum of Art](/source/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art), New York City
* [Middlebury College Museum of Art](/source/Middlebury_College_Museum_of_Art), Middlebury, Vermont
* [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston](/source/Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Boston), Massachusetts
* [Museum of Fine Arts, Houston](/source/Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Houston), Texas
* [Museum of Fine Arts, Minneapolis](/source/Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Minneapolis), Minnesota
* [Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo](/source/Museum_of_Modern_Art%2C_Tokyo), Japan
* [Museum of Modern Art](/source/Museum_of_Modern_Art) (MOMA), New York City
* [Museum of the City of New York](/source/Museum_of_the_City_of_New_York), New York City
* The [Nasher Museum of Art](/source/Nasher_Museum_of_Art) at [Duke University](/source/Duke_University)
* The [National Portrait Gallery](/source/National_Portrait_Gallery_(United_States)), Washington, DC
* The [National Museum, Tokyo](/source/National_Museum%2C_Tokyo), Japan
* The [National Museum of Mexican Art](/source/National_Museum_of_Mexican_Art), Chicago, Illinois
* The [Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art](/source/Nelson-Atkins_Museum_of_Art), Kansas City, Missouri
* [New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts](/source/New_Mexico_Museum_of_Fine_Arts), Santa Fe, New Mexico
* [New York Public Library](/source/New_York_Public_Library), New York
* [Northwestern University](/source/Northwestern_University), Chicago, Illinois
* The [Painting Gallery](/source/Painting_Gallery), Munich, Germany
* [Pomona College Museum of Art](/source/Pomona_College_Museum_of_Art), Claremont, California
* [Portland Museum of Art](/source/Portland_Museum_of_Art), Portland, Maine
* [Rice University](/source/Rice_University), Houston, Texas
* [Rochester Institute of Art](/source/Rochester_Institute_of_Art), Rochester, New York
* [Royal Photographic Society](/source/Royal_Photographic_Society), London, England
* [San Antonio Museum of Art](/source/San_Antonio_Museum_of_Art), San Antonio, Texas
* [San Francisco Museum of Modern Art](/source/San_Francisco_Museum_of_Modern_Art), San Francisco, California
* [Santa Barbara Museum of Art](/source/Santa_Barbara_Museum_of_Art), Santa Barbara, California
* [Smith College Art Museum](/source/Smith_College_Art_Museum), Northampton, Massachusetts
* The [Smithsonian Institution](/source/Smithsonian_Institution), Washington, DC
* [University of New Mexico Art Museum](/source/University_of_New_Mexico_Art_Museum), Albuquerque, New Mexico
* [Worcester Museum of Art](/source/Worcester_Museum_of_Art), Worcester, Massachusetts

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.toddwebbarchive.com Official Todd Webb website]
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/webb_todd.html Todd Webb on Art Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.toddwebbarchive.com Todd Webb Archive]

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