Pepper No. 30
Artist
Edward Weston
(American, 1886 - 1958)
Date1930; printed by 1938
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (23.81 x 19.05 cm)
Framed: 21 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches (53.98 x 43.82 cm)
Framed: 21 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches (53.98 x 43.82 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.413
InscribedInitialed
Signed in artist's hand
"EW 1930"
Front of Mount
Description: LR corner of mount.
Signed and titled
Signed in artist's hand
"Pepper No. 30 / Edward Weston"
Back of Mount
pencil
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Rotation 2. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 24, 2007 – September 19, 2008, no cat.
Rotation 6. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 13 – December 7, 2009, no cat.
Rotation 11. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 17, 2011 – March 18, 2012, no cat.
Edward Weston began in a soft-focus Romantic style in the 1910s, but by the mid-1920s had shifted to a crisply focused, modernist approach. Weston's characteristically straight or purist style is seen in this classic still-life image, one of his most famous works of the period. This photograph is a contact print from an 8 x 10-inch negative. Since there is no enlarging involved in this process, the resulting prints convey an astonishing level of detail and immediacy. In this image, Weston transforms a common pepper into something monumental and timeless.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1994;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Keith F. Davis. Edward Weston: One Hundred Photographs. Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1982, 20 (repro.).
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