id: 325457 accession number: 2019.25 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.25 updated: 2022-09-22 11:09:14.251000 White Radish, 1933. Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958). Gelatin silver print; image: 24.3 x 18.3 cm (9 9/16 x 7 3/16 in.); paper: 24.3 x 18.3 cm (9 9/16 x 7 3/16 in.); mounted: 44.8 x 35.5 cm (17 5/8 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Diann G. Mann and Thomas A. Mann 2019.25 © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: White Radish title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1933 creation date earliest: 1933 creation date latest: 1933 current location: creditline: Gift of Diann G. Mann and Thomas A. Mann copyright: © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Image: 24.3 x 18.3 cm (9 9/16 x 7 3/16 in.); Paper: 24.3 x 18.3 cm (9 9/16 x 7 3/16 in.); Mounted: 44.8 x 35.5 cm (17 5/8 x 14 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount in lower left: “1/50” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount in lower right: “Edward Weston 1933” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso of mount: “G2V/1933” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso of mount: “Radish” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso of mount: “#1184/500” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso of mount: “$1500-“ translation: remark: inscription: Written in black ink on verso of cardboard backing board: “Lot 42” translation: remark: inscription: Imprinted in type on white adhesive label on verso of cardboard backing board: “Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art/Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4001/Return postage guaranteed/98. Edward Weston (1886-1958) American/Radishes, 1933/silver print/An American Portrait: Photographs from the/Collection of Diann and Thomas Mann/April 1-June 12, 1994” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Sotheby's, New York, NY date: May 8, 1984 footnotes: citations: Thomas A. and Diann G. Mann, Palm Beach Gardens, FL date: May 8, 1984 footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 4, 2019 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: An early adherent of vegetarianism, when Weston was done making his vegetable “portraits,” he ate their subjects. digital description: Weston’s vegetable still lifes accurately record their humble subjects, yet at the same time imbue them with suggestive references to the human body. Friends sought out and brought him unusually shaped produce. He photographed this multilobed radish seven times, creating a different composition for each negative. This print is believed to be the only one ever made from this negative. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. An American Journey: The Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Collection of Photographic Masterworks. 2018. page number: url: Tannenbaum, Barbara. “Acquisitions 2019: Photography.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 24-26. page number: Reproduced: P. 26. url: --- IMAGES