DETAILS
- Artist
- Edward Weston
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 23.9 × 19 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Mount: 40.7 × 35 cm (16 1/16 × 13 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Photography and Media
- Culture
- United States
- Credit line
- Gift of Max McGraw
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THE ARTIST
Edward Weston
Edward Weston, a master of 20th-century photography, transformed the medium with his highly detailed images of nudes, still lifes, and the American West.
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