Ruth Shaw
Artist
Edward Weston
(American, 1886 - 1958)
Date1922
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 7/16 inches (18.73 × 23.97 cm)
Mount: 13 7/8 × 16 1/8 inches (35.24 × 40.96 cm)
Mount: 13 7/8 × 16 1/8 inches (35.24 × 40.96 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy through the Mission Fund
Object numberF57-76/1
SignedInitialed and dated on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "EW1922"
InscribedOn mount verso, top left corner, in pencil: "31 PO / 1922"
MarkingsOn mount verso, top left corner, in pencil: "F57-76/1"
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DescriptionImage of a woman in profile, cropped at nose, beneath diagonal black and white shapes.Exhibition HistoryEdward Weston: One Hundred Photographs, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, October 3-November 7, 1982; Springfield (MO) Art Museum, November 28, 1982-January 9, 1983; J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, February 22-March 27, 1983; Evansville (IN) Art Museum, April 10-May 8, 1983; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, June 9-July 25, 1983; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC, September 4-October 16, 1983; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL, December 7, 1983-January 8, 1984; University of Connecticut, Storrs, January 23-March 11, 1984.
Keith F. Davis. Edward Weston: One Hundred Photographs. Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1982, 7 (repro.).
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