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Edward Weston Selected Images 1938-1939 Six gelatin silver prints from The Photographs of Edward Weston printed circa 1953 by Brett Weston Each approximately 7 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (18.1 x 23.2 cm) Each initialed and dated in pencil on the mount; each with printed title, date and negative number on 'The Photographs of Edward Weston' label affixed to the reverse of the mount. Each from an edition of 6.
Provenance Gift of Max McGraw, 1959 Literature Conger, Edward Weston Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, figs. 1298, 1315 and 1417 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Edward Weston Photography and Modernism. pl. 96 Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston pl. 118 Catalogue Essay In 1953, upon the request of his friends and colleagues, an ailing Edward Weston chose 830 negatives—a master set--from which his son Brett then made prints. The set, titled The Photographs of Edward Weston spans Weston’s impressive career and helped to canonize his achievements. It is held complete only at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Art Institute, meanwhile, received a little under one-quarter of the set as a gift in 1959 from Max McGraw, an early wildlife conservationist who knew Weston well. The pictures on offer here in lots 51, 59, 62-63, 65, and 68-69 all come from that acquisition. Already in 1951, meanwhile, the Art Institute had purchased a number of photographs from Weston using its very first photography purchase fund, established by the wife of an industrialist and amateur photographer named Stuyvesant Peabody (lot 67). Titles include: Panamints, Death Valley, 1938; Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, 1938; Death Valley, 1939; Death Valley, 1939; Clouds, Death Valley, 1939; Dante's View, Death Valley, 1938 Read More