The North American premiere of βThe Linda McCartney Retrospectiveβ ends Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Center for Creative Photography on the University of Arizona campus, closing out a months-long exhibit there.
The exhibition has been popular and well-attended, the centerβs chief curator Becky Senf said Tuesday.
Madeline Bassett, left, reads a description as part of the βLinda McCartney Retrospectiveβ at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson on May 2. The exhibit is coming to close on Saturday.
βThe Center for Creative Photography has been delighted by the communityβs overwhelmingly response to The Linda McCartney Retrospective,β she said. βIt feels like Tucson has extended a warm homecoming to McCartneyβs photographs.β
Many of the photos were taken from Paul and Linda McCartneyβs Redington Road home in Tucson.
Paul and Linda bought the two-story house, sitting on 151 acres in the shadow of the Rincon Mountains, in 1979, and for years, spent winter and spring breaks in Tucson with their four children. Linda McCartney died at the home in 1998 after battling breast cancer.
Her love of Tucson stemmed from her college years studying art history and taking photography classes at the University of Arizona.
The exhibit features 180 of McCartneyβs photographs separated into three distinctive areas of her life and photography:
Artist, including photographs of her husband, Paul
- , and his Beatles bandmates as well as other music giants of the 1960s-70s;
- Experimentation, which looks at her photographic innovations;
- And family, including photos she took of herself and Paul and their children throughout
- .
βWe sort of leaned into the ties to Tucson in the family and artist sections,β Senf told the Star in February.
Heather and Javelina (Arizona, 1997) is one of the images on exhibit as part of βThe Linda McCartney Retrospective.β
The Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Road, is open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
Admission to the exhibit is free.
