Winter Squash, 1930

Details

EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)
Winter Squash, 1930
gelatin silver print, printed 1940s
initialed and dated in pencil (mount, recto); numbered '33V' and dated by the photographer in pencil, variously annotated in an unknown hand in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 7 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (18.7 x 23.8 cm.)
mount: 13 3/4 x 16 in. (34.9 x 40.5 cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, Colorado;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 1986, cat. no. 136, pl. 30.
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 1992, fig. 614/1930.

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Lot Essay

'...wide awake with thoughts on my yesterday's negatives: squash – winter squash – marvelous cream white forms – one like a starfish... I am fishing for words to give my feelings for their detached quality – their gesture of complete beauty.' –Edward Weston, 1930

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