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Toadstool, Edward Weston (American, Highland Park, Illinois 1886–1958 Carmel, California), Gelatin silver print

Toadstool

Artist:
Edward Weston (American, Highland Park, Illinois 1886–1958 Carmel, California)
Date:
1931
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image: 19.3 x 24.1 cm (7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Mount: 38.1 x 39.6 cm (15 x 15 9/16 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005
Accession Number:
2005.100.709
Rights and Reproduction:
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Not on view
Inscription: Signed, inscribed, and editioned in pencil, mount recto, BR: "Edward Weston // 1931"; recto (beneath image) BL: "EW 3/50"; Inscribed in pencil, on mount, verso TC: "a mi querida Sonya // con recuerdos // Edward- April 1931"; BR: "4 // AN"
Sonya Noskowiak; [Mark Kelman]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, February 24, 1977

Essays
Group f/64
Paul Strand (1890-1976)

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The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.-present

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