id: 162170
accession number: 2001.92
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.92
updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:46.255000
Dunes, Oceano, 1936. Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958). 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 © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Dunes, Oceano
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creation date: 1936
creation date earliest: 1936
creation date latest: 1936
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creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
copyright: © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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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
* Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958) - artist
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. M.M.
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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.)
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inscription: written in pencil on Recto: "EW 1936" / on verso: "37 SO/ Dunes-Oceano CAL,. 1936 / NY-EW-504-JV"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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: Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-06-24T00:00:00
Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 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).
title: From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression
opening date: 2017-08-13T04:00:00
From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).
title: Stories From Storage
opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00
Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
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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. 76, p. 120, repr. p. 91
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “Accession List,” December 26, 2001, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4424
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