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WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)/WESTON, COLE (1919-2003) "Artichoke Halved."

WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)/WESTON, COLE (1919-2003)
"Artichoke Halved." Silver print, 7 1/2x9 1/4 inches (19.1x23.5 cm.), with the title, date, notations, and "Negative by Edward Weston/Print by Cole Weston," in pencil, on mount verso. 1930; printed early 1960s

  • Notes: From Lee Witkin Gallery in the 1960s; to the present owner.


    Edward Weston: Photographs (Conger), unpaginated.


    Art of Edward Weston, 26.


    Weston wrote in his Daybooks about photographing vegetables on a number of different occasions. In 1930, "A celery heart becomes heroic--a new field is opening to me--on the horizon I see a microscope!" A year later he noted, "Another vulva found in my halved artichoke--and very farfetched the likeness."
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