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Edward Weston

Head of an Italian Girl

1920

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Edward Weston

Head of an Italian Girl

1920

Physical Qualities Palladium print, Mount: 454 × 357 mm. (17 7/8 × 14 1/16 in.) Image/Sheet: 241 × 187 mm. (9 1/2 × 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number 1988.624
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection, " 17 September - 19 November, 1989.

Jan Howard, BMA, "A Century of American Photography: A Decade of BMA Acquisitions," 22 October 1997 - 11 January 1998.

Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints," November 19, 2017 - March 11, 2017.

Inscribed: Recto: none; Verso: in graphite, at center: "X"; on mount, recto, at lower right, in graphite: "Edward Weston 1921"; on mount, verso, at upper left, in graphite: "Edward Weston / 1315 So. [?] Brand / Glendale / No - 1 - "Head of an Italian Girl"; at bottom center, in graphite: "CDH81-0643"

Markings: None

Artist

Edward Weston

1885–1957

American, 1886-1958
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