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Edward Weston and Cole Weston

Shell

1926

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Shell

1926

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Mount: 380 x 335 mm. (14 15/16 x 13 3/16 in.) Image/Sheet: 236 x 187 mm. (9 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Therese and Richard Lansburgh, Baltimore
Object Number 1998.429
Mounted on white mat board.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1989; Therese and Richard Lansburgh, Baltimore; estate of the artist
Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960
Johnstone, Mark. The garden of earthly delights : photographs by Edward Weston and Robert Mapplethorpe; Riverside : UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, c1995. Conger, Amy. Edward Weston--photographs : from the collection of the Center for Creative Photography; [Tucson] : Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, c1992. Newhall, Beaumont. Edward Weston omnibus : a critical anthology / edited and with introductions by Beaumont Newhall and Amy Conger; Salt Lake City : G.M. Smith : Peregrine Smith Books, 1984.

Inscribed: Verso of mount: C: (black ink): 'NEGATIVE BY Edward Weston, PRINT BY Cole Weston [signed in graphite]'; TR (graphite): 'SHELL, 1927'; TL (graphite): '1S'; BL (graphite): '80-0046'.

Artist

Edward Weston

1885–1957

American, 1886-1958
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Printer

Cole Weston

1918–2002

American, 1919-2003
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