About the Artwork
Shell
1927
Edward Weston (Artist) American, 1886-1958 Cole Weston (Printer) American, 1919-2003
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/2 × 7 3/8 inches (24.1 × 18.7 cm) Mount: 15 × 13 1/4 inches (38.1 × 33.7 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Thomas Halsted
F77.15
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Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, upper left corner: 1S Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, upper right corner: Shell, 1927.
Stamped, in black ink, on mount, verso, upper center: NEGATIVE | BY | Edward Weston | PRINT | BY | Cole Weston [signed in pencil].
Provenance
Thomas Halsted (Birmingham, Michigan, USA)
1977-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Barr, Nancy W. "The Legacy of Photographic Modernism in America: Edward Weston's 'Photographic Art' and Charles Sheeler's 'Wheels,'" Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 80, no. 1/2 (2006), fig. 7, p. 48 (ill.).
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Edward Weston, Shell, 1927, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Thomas Halsted, F77.15.
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