id: 153320
accession number: 1986.32
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.32
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Dunes and Mountains, White Sands, 1945. Brett Weston (American, 1911–1993). Gelatin silver print; image: 19.4 x 24.6 cm (7 5/8 x 9 11/16 in.); matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1986.32 © The Brett Weston Archive
title: Dunes and Mountains, White Sands
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creation date: 1945
creation date earliest: 1945
creation date latest: 1945
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
copyright: © The Brett Weston Archive
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1900-1950
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: 19.4 x 24.6 cm (7 5/8 x 9 11/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso of mount: "#8 Brett Weston 1946"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review for 1986
opening date: 1987-02-04T05:00:00
Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).
title: American Space: Landscape Photography 1900-1950
opening date: 2001-01-06T00:00:00
American Space: Landscape Photography 1900-1950. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 6-May 23, 2001).
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
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
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page number: no. 81, p. 120, repr. p. 91
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Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1986." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 2 (1987): 38-79.
page number: p. 67, no. 97, repr. p. 66
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159974
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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