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Dunes, Oceano
1936
Edward Weston
Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958)
Photography
Dunes, Oceano, 1936. Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958). Gelatin silver print; image: 19.1 x 24.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.); mounted: 33.4 x 40.6 cm (13 1/8 x 16 in.); matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2001.92 © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Weston's images hover between representation, abstraction, and metaphor. His sharply focused view of this natural phenomenon becomes a rhythmic design of darks and lights, gentle curves, and crisp edges. The hills of sand echo the waves of the sea, visible at the top of the picture, and engulf the viewer in their sensuous undulations. Edward Weston’s views of the dunes near Oceano, California, were a definitive break from earlier, more narrative depictions of Western landscapes.
- Maker/Artist
- Weston, Edward
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.1 x 24.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.); Mounted: 33.4 x 40.6 cm (13 1/8 x 16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: written in pencil on Recto: "EW 1936" / on verso: "37 SO/ Dunes-Oceano CAL,. 1936 / NY-EW-504-JV"
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 2001.92
- Credit Line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art, From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression, Stories From Storage
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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