Edward Weston 1886-1958

The photographer to Dora Hagemeyer, 1931

Weston Gallery, Carmel, acquired from the above, 1981

The Southland Corporation, Dallas, acquired from the above

Sotheby's New York, Photographs from the Collection of 7-Eleven, Inc., 5 and 6 April 2000, Sale 7448, Lot 1

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003

Other prints of this image:

Conger 656

Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants (Boston, 1986, in conjunction with the exhibition originating at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson), pl. 77

The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Volume II, California (Aperture, 1973), pl. 28

Therese Thau Heyman, Beaumont Newhall, Mary Street Alinder, and Naomi Rosenblum, Seeing Straight: The f.64 Revolution in Photography (The Oakland Museum, in conjunction with the exhibition, 1992), pl. 40

Jean S. Tucker and Willard Van Dyke, Group f.64 (University of Missouri, 1978, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 50

Gloria Williams Sander, The Collectible Moment: Catalogue of Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, 2006), pl. 442 

This print of Eroded Plank from Barley Sifter was given by Edward Weston to Carmel librarian and poet Dora Hagemeyer, sister-in-law of Weston's friend and fellow photographer, Johan Hagemeyer.  Dora Hagemeyer was the author of numerous books, including Leaf and Shadow (1941) and White Sands of Carmel (1947).  In 1929, she had written a review of a local exhibition of Weston's photographs for The Carmelite in which she praised his work highly. 

In 1932, Eroded Plank from Barley Sifter was one of ten photographs by Edward Weston included in the seminal Group f.64 exhibition at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.  

In his Negative Log, now in the collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Weston notes that he made only 7 prints of this image.