Edward Weston
‘Quills and Barbs’ (Pelican’s Wing)
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Edward Weston
1886 - 1958
‘Quills and Barbs’ (Pelican’s Wing)
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, annotated Carmel and numbered 2Bi in pencil on the reverse
image: 7 ½ by 9 ½ in. (19.1 by 24.1 cm.)
Executed in 1930.
The photographer to J. Leslie Meek, circa 1931
By descent through family to the present owner
Nancy Newhall, ed., The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Volume II California, New York 1966, pl. 11
Kathy Kelsey Foley, Edward Weston’s Gifts to His Sister, The Dayton Art Institute 1978, p. 46
Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston, Boston 1986, pl. 97
The Artificial of the Real, Hanover: The Kestner Gesellschaft 1989, p. 112
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, Tucson 1992, fig. 653
Sarah M. Lowe and Dody Weston Thompson, Edward Weston: Life Work, Revere 2003, pl. 44
Jenifer A. Watts ed., Edward Weston: A Legacy, London 2003, p. 37, fig. 27
Manfred Heiting ed., Edward Weston: 1886-1958, Arizona 2004, n.p.
Alexander Lee Nyerges, Edward Weston: A Photographer’s Love of Life, The Dayton Art Institute 2004, pp. 77 and 163
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