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Nude on Sand, Oceano

Edward Weston American
Printer Brett Weston American
Printer Cole Weston American
1936, printed ca. 1954
Not on view
Charis Wilson, the model for this series, admitted to being shocked upon seeing Weston’s nudes for the first time, as she had previously known only the romantically retouched photographs of depilated bodies then popular. In studying Weston’s work she found, "I couldn’t get past the simple amazement at how real they were. Then I began to see the rhythmic patterns, the intensely perceived sculptural forms, the subtle modulations of tone, of which these small, perfect images were composed. And I began to appreciate the originality of the viewpoint that had selected just these transitory moments and made them fast against the current of time."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Nude on Sand, Oceano
  • Artist: Edward Weston (American, Highland Park, Illinois 1886–1958 Carmel, California)
  • Printer: Brett Weston (American, Los Angeles, California 1911–1993 Kona, Hawaii) or
  • Printer: Cole Weston (American, 1919–2003)
  • Date: 1936, printed ca. 1954
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: 19.1 x 24.2 cm. (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1957
  • Object Number: 57.519.13
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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