Edward Weston 1886-1958

mounted, signed and dated by the photographer in pencil on the mount, titled by him in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1937

Acquired by the present owner from Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 1990

Other prints of this image:

Conger 1035

Karen E. Quinn and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Weston's Westons: California and the West (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1994, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 129

Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: Fifty Years (Aperture, 1973), p. 193

Aperture Masters of Photography: Edward Weston (Aperture, 1988), p. 61

Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (Sierra Club, 1992), p. 71

This early print, on paper with a surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. It is wholly consistent in its presentation for a Weston print of this period, with the signature and date on the front of the matte-surface beige mount board, and the title in the center on the reverse. When examined in raking light, very light silvering in the dark areas is visible. There is some age-darkening at the periphery, and the reverse of the mount is lightly soiled.
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