Edward Weston
Toadstool

Toadstool

© 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents

Toadstool
Toadstool
ArtistAmerican, 1886–1958
PrinterAmerican, 1919–2003
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Toadstool
Date1931, printed 1978
Place depictedPoint Lobos, California, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/8 × 9 5/16 in. (18.7 × 23.7 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 5/16 in. (18.7 × 23.7 cm)
Mount: 13 1/4 × 15 in. (33.7 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number78.94
Not on view

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Department
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Object Type
Provenance[The Witkin Gallery, Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1978.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top left corner in pencil "4FU"
top right "Toadstool, 1931
bottom left "983"
verso of mount center in pencil "Cole Weston"
verso of mount center a stamp "NEGATIVE / BY / Edward Weston / PRINT / BY / [signature]"

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