EDWARD WESTON

Church at "E" Town, New Mexico

Details

EDWARD WESTON
Church at "E" Town, New Mexico
Gelatin silver print. 1933/Printed no later than 1935. Signed, dated and numbered 20-50 in pencil on the mount; titled, annotated 20.00 in pencil on the reverse of the mount.
7 5/8 x 9 5/8in. (19.4 x 24.4cm.) Framed.

Literature

See: Conger, Edward Weston Photographs, fig. 747/1933; and Newhall, The Daybooks of Edward Weston, II California, pl. 30, there dated 1934.

Lot Essay

Weston traveled in New Mexico in June of 1933 with Willard Van Dyke and Sonya, and spent a short time in Elizabethtown ("E" Town). Weston was exhiliarated by the landscape. He wrote in his Daybooks "...I knew I could go back, - it is but a day's journey. But when? It must be soon, for only at this time of year is the light at its best." (The Daybooks of Edward Weston, II California, July 23, 1933, p. 275). The negative number of this print is 34A and according to his diary there were 22 prints made of this image.

More from Photographs

View All