Cypress and Stone Crop, Point Lobos

Photography and Media

1946, printed 1953/54

Edward Weston
American, 1886–1958

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Edward Weston
Title: Cypress and Stone Crop, Point Lobos
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1946
Medium: Gelatin silver print, No. 9 from the "Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio 1902–1952"
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: "EW1937"; verso unchecked
Dimensions: Image/paper: 24.1 × 19.2 cm (9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 40.6 × 35 cm (16 × 13 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Peabody Fund
Reference Number: 1952.223

Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 321, cat. 271.
Travis, David. 2001. “Edward Weston: The Last Years in Carmel.” Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago/ Distributed Art Publishers: New York. p. 125. cat. 64. pl. 64. p. 13. fig. 2.

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Edward Weston: The Last Years in Carmel,” June 2 - October 28, 2001; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, March 1-July 9, 2002. (David Travis)

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