Surf, Point Lobos

Artist Edward Weston (American, 1886 - 1958)

Date1938

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 9/16 inches (19.05 × 24.29 cm)
Mount: 13 7/8 × 16 1/8 inches (35.24 × 40.96 cm)
Mat (handling): 16 × 21 3/8 inches (40.64 × 54.29 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy through the Mission Fund

Object numberF57-76/37

SignedInitialed and dated on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "EW1938"

InscribedOn mount verso, top left corner, in pencil: "PL-5-7G / 1938"

MarkingsOn mount verso, top left corner, in pencil: "F57-76/37"

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Collections

Photography

Terms

Exhibition History

Edward 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.

Absence of Color. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 4, 1999 - February 27, 2000, no cat.

Published References

Keith F. Davis. Edward Weston: One Hundred Photographs. Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1982, 44 (repro.).

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