id: 141750
accession number: 1965.330
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.330
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Broken Glass, 1955. Brett Weston (American, 1911–1993). Gelatin silver print; image: 34 x 25.8 cm (13 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.); matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts 1965.330 © The Brett Weston Archive
title: Broken Glass
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creation date: 1955
creation date earliest: 1955
creation date latest: 1955
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creditline: Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts
copyright: © The Brett Weston Archive
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1951-Present
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Brett Weston (American, 1911–1993) - artist
Brett Weston (born in Los Angeles) was the second son of well-known American photographer Edward Weston. After learning photography from his father and working in his father's studio, in 1930 Weston set up his own studio in Santa Barbara. Two years later he was invited to exhibit in the first Group f/64 show at the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco. During World War II Weston was stationed in New York, where he served as an army photographer. In 1947 he received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to photograph along the East Coast. The following year he returned to California to assist with the care of his father and with making prints from his father's negatives. In the 1960s Weston began a series of trips to photograph in Europe, Baja California, Japan, and Hawaii, and in 1973 a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts allowed him to photograph in Alaska. Throughout his long career, Weston often worked with a large-format camera, creating sharp, detailed images that focused on his subjects' abstract, formal elements, such as texture, form, pattern, and tone. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 34 x 25.8 cm (13 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
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inscription: Written in black ink on verso: "Broken Glass / Original Photograph / by Brett Weston"; typed in black ink on label on verso: "WESTON, BRETT [crossed out in pink highlight] 144) Pines and Fog / 145) Adobe Wall [crossed out in pink felt pen] / 146) Broken Glass"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1965
opening date: 1965-10-27T04:00:00
Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).
title: Photograph Exhibition
opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00
Photograph Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-September 19, 1971).
title: Source Material for Studio Projects
opening date: 1972-06-20T04:00:00
Source Material for Studio Projects. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20-August 27, 1972).
title: Brett Weston: Photographs
opening date: 2018-01-21T05:00:00
Brett Weston: Photographs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 21-May 6, 2018).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'New York World\'s Fair, 1965: "Photography in the Fine Arts."', 'opening_date': '1965-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, 1979: "Selection of Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art."', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'}
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 9 (1965): 124-57.
page number: p. 157, no. 181
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152069
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 372
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