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Samuel Jones Wagstaff Jr. (November 4, 1921 – January 14, 1987) was an American art curator, collector, and the artistic mentor and benefactor of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (who was also his lifetime companion) and poet-punk rocker Patti Smith.
24. Apr. 2007 · Tall, handsome and rich would be one way to describe Sam Wagstaff, a legendary figure in the international art world of the 1970s and ’80s. Urbane is another. Iconoclastic, certainly. And...
It's the first major biography of Sam Wagstaff, a name as obscure as Mapplethorpe's is infamous. Sam was conspicuously known as the lover, mentor, and patron of Robert Mapplethorpe," Gefter...
23. Jan. 2023 · Just over two years earlier in January 1987, Mapplethorpe lost his long-time companion and primary artistic benefactor Sam Wagstaff to the disease (per The Huffington Post). The deaths of Mapplethorpe and Wagstaff would create a void in the world of art that might not ever be filled.
Learn about the little-known photographs of Sam Wagstaff, a pioneering photography collector and curator. See how he captured his friends, lovers and the world with a personal and artistic vision.
5. Dez. 2014 · Wagstaff’s lover, Robert Mapplethorpe, answered the question with a vengeance, yoking an austere, nearly arctic elegance to images of flowers, male nudes and the rituals of sadomasochism.
22. Okt. 2014 · The curator and collector Sam Wagstaff had a seminal influence on photography’s migration to the realm of high art.
