The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of photographer Arnold Newman.

Newman, who died in June 2006, was recognized as a master of environmental portraits taken in the subjects' personal or professional surroundings. His work includes images of such 20th-century luminaries as Lyndon Baines Johnson, Pablo Picasso and Truman Capote.

The archive spans the late 1930s to the current decade...