The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Grass

Date:: 1941–42
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: Image: 19.2 x 24.3 cm (7 9/16 x 9 9/16 in.) Mount: 30.8 x 36.1 cm (12 1/8 x 14 3/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Purchase, David Hunter McAlpin Fund, by exchange, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.910
Rights and Reproduction:: ©1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil, on mount, recto, (beneath image) BL: "©"; Inscribed in pencil, on mount, verso TC: "© Limited Editions Club, Inc. // Not for sale"; (sideways)BC: "B"
Provenance

[Donna Schneier, Inc., New York]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, November 11, 1975
Notes

Shortly after after his Guggenheim Project, Edward Weston was offered a challenging new project by Limited Editions Club, New York, to photographically illustrate a new edition of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'.
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