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Important collections of her work are held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She was married to the photographer Ray K. Metzker until his death in 2014.Table of ContentsLife and work[edit]Early life[edit]Career[edit]Personal life[edit]Collections[edit]Exhibitions[edit]References[edit]Life and work[edit]Between 1975 and 1993 Thorne-Thomsen produced an unorthodox body of photographs with a pinhole camera.[1] She made portraits of friends and family members, staged toys and other props to create seemingly vast landscapes, and included her own cut-out photographs in some compositions, creating whimsical riffs on art history. Despite the modest appearance of these prints\u2014most are smaller than 4×5 inches and are presented informally, with uneven edges and other markers of their simple production\u2014they form a meditation on photography that has proven influential to other artists. Rooted on the one hand in 19th-century travel views by figures such as Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith, which captivated Thorne-Thomsen, and on the other hand in amateur photography traditions from the Pictorialist movement onward, which she encountered firsthand in the work of her grandmother and mother, this resolutely un-authoritative group of pictures is a notable body of photography to emerge from the experimental decade of the 1970s.Early life[edit]Thorne-Thomsen was raised in Berkeley, California until age twelve, when her family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois. As a child she spent significant time visiting her grandmother at family ranches in Santa Barbara, where she developed her love for animals, gardening, and wide open spaces. She studied photography at Columbia College Chicago (1971\u20131973) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1974\u20131976) following earlier programs in dance and painting at Columbia College, Missouri (1961\u20131963) and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (1966\u20131970). Initially intending to become a dancer, she performed with the Sybil Shearer Dance Company in Northbrook, Illinois from 1964\u20131965. A 1971 trip to the Brooks Range in Alaska sparked her interest in photography.Career[edit]Early in her studies she encountered pinhole photography and began exploring its potential through multiple overlapping series, notably Expeditions (1976\u20131982), Prima Materia (1984\u20131987), Views from the Shoreline (1986\u20131987) and Songs of the Sea (1991\u20131993). She made many of these pictures in Chicago and Santa Barbara, as well as Door County, Wisconsin, where she and Metzker would visit her parents on their way to Castle Valley, Utah. They owned a home in Castle Valley from 1999 until 2016, and both photographed extensively in the area. Thorne-Thomsen also explored other aspects of photography, notably in her series Messengers (1989\u20131991), large studies of sculptures and art illustrations that incorporate movement of the camera.[2]Within This Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen accompanied her exhibition of the same title, which was published by The Museum of Contemporary Photography in association with Aperture, with an essay by Denise Miller-Clark and an original poem by Poet Laureate Mark Strand.[3]Personal life[edit]Thorne-Thomsen is a descendant of the American statesman Elbridge Gerry Spaulding, so-called \u201cFather of the Greenback,\u201d as well as the Norwegian actress and minister, Fredrikke Nielsen. She lives in a home that she and her husband, Ray K. Metzker, built together in Philadelphia, where she maintains an extensive garden.[4]Collections[edit]Exhibitions[edit]2000Le Siecle du Corps- Photographs of the Ancient World, Le Musee de L’Elys\u00e9e Lausanne, SwitzerlandOrphans, Schmidt Dean Gallery Philadelphia, PA1999The Cultured Tourist, , Leslie Tonkonow Gallery New York, NY1998A Retrospective Journey \u2013 Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Jackson Fine Art Atlanta, GAEgypt of the Mind, Denver Art Museum Denver, COYears Ending in Nine, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX1997Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection, International Center of Photography New York, NYFifty Years of Contemporary American Photography: 1947\u20131997, Venlo, NetherlandsARCO-Art Expo Madrid, Spain1996Kobe Aid Fund, World Photo Art Exhibition and Auction Tokyo, JapanArt in Chicago, 1945\u20131995, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ILPortfolio \u2013 Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Vigovisions, V Fotobienal Vigo, Spain1994Explorations, Past Rays Photo Gallery & Gallery Nayuta Yokohama, JapanWithin This Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, California Museum of Photography Riverside, CA1993Within This Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, ILCleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH[11]References[edit]^ Spencer, L. & Long-Middleton, M. (February 27, 2013). “Inventing A World With A Pinhole Camera”. KCUR. Retrieved December 25, 2017.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)^ “Ruth Thorne Thomsen Photographs Pinhole World”. Mutant.^ Miller-Clark, Denise (1993). Within this Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen. Chicago and New York: The Museum of Contemporary Photography and Aperture. ISBN\u00a00893815497.^ “Ruth Thorne Thomsen”. Institute Contemporary Photography. June 10, 2018.^ “Ruth Thorne-Thomsen”. The Art Institute of Chicago.^ “Ruth Thorne Thomsen”. clevelandart.org. October 31, 2018.^ “Ruth Thorne-Thomsen”. International Center of Photography. June 10, 2018.^ “Museum of Contemporary Photography”. www.mocp.org.^ “Ruth Thorne-Thomsen: Niobe, “Views from the Shoreline”, N.M.” mfah.org.^ “Untitled”. rockfordartmuseum.org.^ “Ruth Thorne-Thomsen”. 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