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
