Monterey Museum of Art presents ‘Edward Weston: American Photographer’

ABSTRACT: The Monterey Museum of Art presents “Edward Weston: American Photographer” (June 18 - October 9, 2011) at MMA La Mirada. The exhibition features about one hundred vintage prints of “Weston’s most famous and admired photographs along with rare images not widely exhibited.” The prints are exhibited in the MMA’s La Mirada McCone Gallery and Dart Gallery and is organized as follows: THE GUGGENHEIM YEARS, LEAVES OF GRASS, LANDSCAPE, STILL LIFES, NUDES and PORTRAITS. The titles of the thirty prints on loan from the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Harrison Memorial Library, are listed. Images of prints (2997 total) by Edward Weston (1886 – 1958) from the Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents, can be viewed online.

Edward Weston: American Photographer
JUNE 18-OCTOBER 9, 2011
MMA LA MIRADA

THE GUGGENHEIM YEARS:
In 1937, Edward Weston was awarded a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He traveled 16,697 miles and produced 1,260 negatives. His Fellowship was renewed in 1938.

Potato Cellar, Lake Tahoe
1937
Gelatin silver print

‘Chief’ Heggen’s Barn, Salinas
1939
Gelatin silver print

Untitled (Courtyard at La Rambla, Carmel)
Undated
Gelatin silver print

LEAVES OF GRASS:
In 1941, the Limited Editors Club of New York commissioned Edward Weston to make photographs to illustrate a special edition of Walt Whitman’s collection of poems “Leaves of Grass.”

Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Fry, Burnet, Texas
1941
Gelatin silver print

Mr. Brown-Jones, Athens, Georgia
1941
Gelatin silver print

LANDSCAPE:
Eroded Rock, Point Lobos
1930
Gelatin silver print

Lettuce Ranch, Salinas Valley
1934
Gelatin silver print

Fence, Old Road, Big Sur
1935
Gelatin silver print

Dunes, Oceano
1936
Gelatin silver print

Dunes, Oceano
1936
Gelatin silver print

Panamints
1938
Gelatin silver print

Rock and Hills, Point Lobos
1938
Gelatin silver print

Church Door, Hornitos
1940
Gelatin silver print

Wall Scrawls, Hornitos
1940
Gelatin silver print

Cypress and Stone Crop, Point Lobos
1946
Gelatin silver print

Eroded Rocks, South Shore, Point Lobos
1948
Gelatin silver print

STILL LIVES:
Shells
1921
Gelatin silver print

Heaped Black Ollas, Oaxaca
1926
Gelatin silver print

Nautilus Shell
1927
Gelatin silver print

Artichoke Halved
1930
Gelatin silver print

Egg Slicer
1930
Gelatin silver print

Kelp
1930
Gelatin silver print

Cabbage Leaf
1931
Gelatin silver print

Drift Stump, Crescent Beach
1937
Gelatin silver print

Dead Pelican, Point Lobos
1942
Gelatin silver print

NUDES:
Edward Weston photographed nudes from his early days. He depicted nudes without “artifice or obscuration.” His subjects were all women, except for his sons. One of his most important models was his second wife Charis Wilson.

Charis, Santa Monica
1936
Gelatin silver print

Nude on Sand, Oceano
1936
Gelatin silver print

PORTRAITS:
Edward Weston began his career as a portrait photographer. He worked in the popular style – soft-focus, idealized, painterly known as “pictorialism.”

Sunny Corner in an Attic (Johan Hagemeyer)
1920
Gelatin silver print

Guadulupe Marin de Rivera, Mexico
(wife of artist Diego Rivera)
1924
Gelatin silver print

Diego River, Mexico
1924
Gelatin silver print