Diane MacKown

{{short description|American photographer}}

Diane MacKown, also known as Diana MacKown is an American photographer. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,{{cite web|url=https://www.whitney.org/artists/7422|title=Diane MacKown|website=www.whitney.org|access-date=2019-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408162825/https://www.whitney.org/artists/7422|archive-date=2019-04-08|url-status=live}} the Metropolitan Museum of Art{{Cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/291964 |title=Diana MacKown | [Louise Nevelson Beneath a Tree in Palenque, Mexico] | the Met |access-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408163511/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/291964 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |url-status=live }} and the National Portrait Gallery, London.{{cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp128203/diana-mackown|title=Diana MacKown - National Portrait Gallery|website=www.npg.org.uk|access-date=2019-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408162910/https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp128203/diana-mackown|archive-date=2019-04-08|url-status=live}}

MacKown was for many years an assistant to Louise Nevelson. After Nevelson died, she became involved in a contentious dispute with Nevelson's son over the ownership of a number of Nevelson's statues.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/10/arts/nevelson-estate-is-the-focus-of-a-battle.html|title=Nevelson Estate Is the Focus of a Battle|last=Yarrow|first=Andrew L.|date=1989-06-10|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-03-11|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219183209/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/10/arts/nevelson-estate-is-the-focus-of-a-battle.html|archive-date=2017-12-19|url-status=live}}