Edward Weston

mounted, initialed and dated in pencil on the mount, signed in full, titled, and dated, and with annotations in pencil and the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Collection stamp on the reverse, 1940

Collection of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall

Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

Conger 1505

Nancy Newhall, ed., Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition (Aperture, 1967), p. 89

Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photographs of Edward Weston (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1986), cat. 215

Heiting, Manfred, ed., Edward Weston (Köln, 2004), p. 181

Jennifer A. Watts, ed., Edward Weston, A Legacy (Los Angeles: The Huntington Library, 2003), pl. 56

This print, on semi-glossy paper and mounted to card, is in generally excellent condition. Upon very close examination, a small black deposit is visible near the lower edge of the image, and there is a tiny loss of emulsion near the upper edge. A thin excess of drymounting tissue is visible along the left and right edges. The front of the mount is generally clean, with some fingerprints and faint signs of handling. The following is written in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse: 'Church Door, Hornitos 1940'; '_40-H-6' (Weston's negative number); 'Cat - 73'; '73' (circled); '35'; '15' (circled); '47%'; and 'W-9.' The reverse of the mount is soiled.
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