id: 303819 accession number: 2017.175 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.175 updated: 2020-11-04 22:22:46.085000 Clouds, Skyscape, Hawaii, c. 1985. Brett Weston (American, 1911-1993). Gelatin silver print; image: 27.4 x 34.1 cm (10 13/16 x 13 7/16 in.); paper: 27.8 x 35.5 cm (10 15/16 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Christian Keesee Collection 2017.175 © The Brett Weston Archive title: Clouds, Skyscape, Hawaii title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1985 creation date earliest: 1980 creation date latest: 1990 current location: creditline: Gift of the Christian Keesee Collection copyright: © The Brett Weston Archive --- culture: America technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Image: 27.4 x 34.1 cm (10 13/16 x 13 7/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 x 35.5 cm (10 15/16 x 14 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “2-1/2” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “21410.” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: Weston’s photographs are about the act of seeing, of translating his experience of the world into visual terms. His images hover between abstraction and representation. “It seems to me,” Weston wrote, “that this powerful duality, this combination of the abstract, in the emphasis upon form, and the sense of presence, in the rendering of light and substance, is something only photography can do.” wall description: Weston’s interest in clouds was surely inspired by Alfred Stieglitz’s Equivalents, produced between 1925 and 1934. Stieglitz intended his images to be seen as abstractions, untethered from the land below. While Weston’s earliest cloudscapes included landscape elements, such as the image from 1936 that begins this exhibition, his later explorations of the sky reveled in abstraction and the graphic patterning of light and dark created by sun and cloud. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES