Lot Essay
In his Daybooks Weston wrote "The Middletown visit was something to remember with auto drives through the hills and dales of Miami Valley, all resplendent in autumn colors, and over the river into Kentucky, to Dayton and Cincinnati too. But most of all in importance was my photographing of "Armco", the great plant and giant stacks of the American Rolling Mill Co. That day I made great photographs, even Stieglitz thought they were important! And I only showed him unmounted proofs."
Lent by the present owner to the Museum of Modern Art for the exhibition 'Photographs for Collectors', December 1966-January 1967. The MoMA index card for this print does not give a specific print date, but all other Weston prints from the same exhibition, where listed, have a print date of 1941.
Lent by the present owner to the Museum of Modern Art for the exhibition 'Photographs for Collectors', December 1966-January 1967. The MoMA index card for this print does not give a specific print date, but all other Weston prints from the same exhibition, where listed, have a print date of 1941.