Edward Weston 1886-1958

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

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Description

Edward Weston
SELECTED STUDIES OF PAUL JORDAN SMITH

2 photographs of Paul Jordan Smith, comprising a study of Smith Smoking, and a Profile Portrait, each titled and inscribed 'please credit (Edward Weston, Glendale -- California)' by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, matted, framed, 1923

Provenance

The photographer to Paul Jordan Smith

By descent to the estate of Sarah Bixby-Smith

Stephen White Gallery, Los Angeles

Sotheby's New York, 28 April 1999, Sale 7296, Lot 208

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Weston J. Naef and Susan Danly, Edward Weston in Los Angeles (The Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, 1986), p. 20

Brett Abbott, In Focus: Edward Weston (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2005), pl. 6

Catalogue Note

Paul Jordan Smith (1885 - 1971) was a literary critic for the Los Angeles Times and a close friend of Edward Weston. Smith's wife was Sarah Bixby-Smith, the director of the Friday Morning Club, which hosted one of Weston's earliest shows in 1914, and continued to exhibit his work almost yearly after 1917. Smith sat for Weston at least three times, in 1919, 1920, and for the photographs offered here, in 1923 (cf. Conger 46).