{"data": {"id": 162170, "accession_number": "2001.92", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Dunes, Oceano, 1936. Edward Weston (American, 1886\u20131958). Gelatin silver print; image: 19.1 x 24.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.); mounted: 33.4 x 40.6 cm (13 1/8 x 16 in.); matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2001.92. \u00a9  Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York", "current_location": null, "title": "Dunes, Oceano", "creation_date": "1936", "creation_date_earliest": 1936, "creation_date_latest": 1936, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["America"], "technique": "gelatin silver print", "support_materials": [], "department": "Photography", "collection": "PH - American 1900-1950", "type": "Photograph", "measurements": "Image: 19.1 x 24.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.); Mounted: 33.4 x 40.6 cm (13 1/8 x 16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)", "dimensions": {"image": {"height": 0.191, "height_inch": 7, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.241, "width_inch": 9, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}, "mounted": {"height": 0.334, "height_inch": 13, "height_inch_fraction": 0.125, "width": 0.406, "width_inch": 16, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}, "matted": {"height": 0.457, "height_inch": 18, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.559, "width_inch": 22, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": "\u00a9  Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York", "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "written in pencil on Recto: \"EW 1936\" / on verso: \"37 SO/ Dunes-Oceano CAL,. 1936 / NY-EW-504-JV\"", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 181802, "title": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).", "opening_date": "2006-06-09T00:00:00"}, {"id": 194095, "title": "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010).", "opening_date": "2007-06-24T00:00:00"}, {"id": 299125, "title": "From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression", "description": "<i>From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).", "opening_date": "2017-08-13T04:00:00"}, {"id": 383281, "title": "Stories from Storage", "description": "<i>Stories from Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).", "opening_date": "2021-02-06T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Edward Weston\u2019s views of the dunes near Oceano, California, were a definitive break from earlier, more narrative depictions of Western landscapes.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Weston's images hover between representation, abstraction, and metaphor. His sharply focused view of this natural phenomenon becomes a rhythmic design of darks and lights, gentle curves, and crisp edges. The hills of sand echo the waves of the sea, visible at the top of the picture, and engulf the viewer in their sensuous undulations.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79985926"], "internet_archive": []}, "citations": [{"citation": "Sims, Lowery Stokes. <em>The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.", "page_number": "no. 76, p. 120, repr. p. 91", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cAccession List,\u201d December 26, 2001, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4424"}, {"citation": "Tannenbaum, Barbara. \u201cFrom Riches to Rags: Depression-era photography ranges from documentary evidence of deprivation to modernist depictions of abundance.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 57, no. 4 (July/August 2017): 10-11.", "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 11", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2017-04/page/n5/mode/2up"}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.92", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 162170, "creators": [{"id": 1082, "description": "Edward Weston (American, 1886\u20131958)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Edward Weston American, 1886-1958 Edward Weston was one of the most influential proponents of straight photography in America. Born in Highland Park, Illinois, he made his first photographs in 1902 with a Kodak camera given to him by his father. Four years later he settled in California, supporting himself as a portrait photographer. After attending the Illinois College of Photography, he opened a studio in Tropico (now Glendale), California, in 1911. Initially, Weston made photographs in the soft-focus pictorial style. In the early 1920s, however, his work began to become more sharply focused, with a greater emphasis on form and composition. Among the earliest examples of this new approach are his 1922 photographs of the Armco steel mill in Middletown, Ohio. Over the next few years he continued to experiment with this new style, working in Mexico and then San Francisco. A master of lighting and composition, Weston began a series of closeup studies of shells and vegetables in 1927, creating the clearly focused, detailed images for which he became famous. In 1932 Weston joined Ansel Adams, Willard Van Dyke, Imogen Cunningham, and others in founding Group f/64, which advocated straight, unmanipulated photography. Five years later he received the first fellowship awarded to a photographer by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowship was renewed in 1938 and allowed Weston to travel and photograph throughout California and the western United States. Working slowly and methodically with large-format cameras, Weston continued to produce sharply focused contact prints until 1948, when Parkinson's disease forced him to give up photography. In subsequent years Weston's sons, Brett and Cole, worked under his supervision to make prints from his negatives. 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