Edward Weston
Two Shells

Two Shells

© 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents

Two Shells
Two Shells
ArtistAmerican, 1886–1958
PrinterAmerican, 1919–2003
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Two Shells
Date1927, printed 1978
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 7/16 × 7 7/16 in. (24 × 18.9 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 7/16 in. (24 × 18.9 cm)
Mount: 15 1/16 × 13 1/4 in. (38.2 × 33.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number78.91
Not on view

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Description

Edward Weston is best known
for his photographs of vegetables and shells, his portraits, his abstract
close-ups of nudes, rocks, and trees, and his late heroic landscapes. His
sensuously precise
Two Shells was
made not long after Weston embraced the straightforward, sharply focused
modernist aesthetic. The subtleties of tone and sculptural design Weston
achieved in his work became the standards by which much later photographic
practice has been judged.




Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Museum Promotional Exhibition," Texas Commerce Bank, Jul 1 - 31 1979

Exhibited "Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures",
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston December 3 - February 25, 2007
Austin Museum of Art May 19 - August 12, 2007
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi June 5 - August 24, 2008

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