Edward Weston

titled 'n. coast' and dated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1935

The photographer to his sister, Mary Weston Seaman

By descent to her daughter, Jeannette Seaman

By descent to her nephew, John W. Longstreth

The Dayton Art Institute, Edward Weston's Gifts to His Sister, January - March 1978, and traveling to:

New York, International Center of Photography, July - September 1978; and

The Oakland Museum, February - March 1979

Kathy Kelsey Foley, Edward Weston's Gifts to His Sister (The Dayton Art Institute, 1978, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 49 (this print)

Another print of this image:

Conger 1165

This wonderful, nearly abstract seascape, on semi-glossy paper, is in generally fair condition. In raking light, a 6¼-inch diagonal linear crease is visible on the left side of the print. This crease breaks the emulsion. Also visible in raking light is a one-inch, linear, vertical crease at the right edge of the print. The corners of the print are lightly bumped, and the top left corner is creased.
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Between September and October of 1937, Weston and Charis Wilson traveled in northern California, making their way toward Oregon.  Conger notes that they stopped in Bodega State Park, on the coast just north of San Francisco, where Weston took several photographs of the surf as it made its way to the rocks at Duncan's point.  Three of the photographs form a sequence of the changing patterns of surf not unlike Ansel Adams's surf sequence of 1940. 

In addition to the print in the Edward Weston Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Conger locates prints of this image in the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; the University of California, Los Angeles; and a Project Print at Santa Cruz.