Nude Floating in Pool

Portfolio TitleDesnudos

Artist Edward Weston (American, 1886 - 1958)

Printer Cole Weston (American, 1919 - 2003)

Date1939; printed 1972

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 7/16 inches (19.05 × 23.97 cm)
Mount: 14 × 16 inches (35.56 × 40.64 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.2461

SignedBlack stamp and signature on mount verso, center, in black ink with pencil: "NEGATIVE / BY / Edward Weston / PRINT / BY / Cole Weston [signature]"

InscribedOn mount verso, top, in pencil: "NUDE FLOATING, 1939"'

MarkingsOn mount verso, top, in pencil: "N39-C-2";

Edition/State/Proofed. of 100

On View

Not on view

Collections

Photography

Terms

DescriptionFemale nude figure floating in pool. Legs resting on shallow edge of pool.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 19. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 9 – September 27, 2015, no cat.

Edward Weston Photographs. Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, March 9 – June 2, 1996, no cat.

Provenance

Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1973;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

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, 30 (repro.).

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