EDWARD WESTON | Shell, 1927

Silver print, printed by Cole Weston, the artist son, flush-mounted to card. On the reverse of the card, signed in pencil by Cole Weston on the Weston 'negative' stamp. Matted and framed.

Frances D. McMullen, "Lowly Things That Yield Strange Stark Beauty", New York, Times Magazine, 16 November 1930, ill. p. 7.
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, Center for Creative Photography, 1992, fig. 1927.
Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: Fifty Years, New York, Aperture, 1973, ill. p. 149.
Barbara Haskell, The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-1950, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999, fig. 387.
Brett Abbott, In Focus: Edward Weston, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005, front wrapper and pl. 25.

This silver print is in excellent general condition.
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Miss dated 1929 in pencil on the reverse. Shell, 1927
Photograph by Edward Weston
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