Tomales Bay, Outside San Francisco, California

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Tomales Bay, Outside San Francisco, California

Artist Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958)

Date1937

Dimensions7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by an anonymous donor

Object number

1971.180

Not on View

Label Text“I do not wish to impose my personality upon nature (any of life’s manifestations), but without prejudice or falsification to be identified with nature, to know things in their very essence, so that what I record is not an interpretation—my idea of what nature should be—but a revelation—a piercing of the smoke screen artificially cast over life by irrelevant, humanly limited exigencies, into an absolute, impersonal recognition.” --Edward Weston Edward Weston was a successful ‘soft-focus’ portrait photographer before his study of modern art, photographs by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, and his acquaintance with Alfred Steiglitz led him, in the 1920s, to redefine his aesthetic in terms of sharply focused shapes, patterns, and textures. In 1937 and 1938 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to document the American West. This photograph is a vintage print from that period.Published ReferencesEdward Weston: Fifty Years, Millerton, N.Y., 1973, repr. no. 191.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Enduring Land: Adams and the Westons, Oct. 22,1977 - Dec. 4,1977 (no cat.).

Toledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.

Toledo Museum of Art, The American West: Photographs of a New Frontier, January 15-May 15, 2016.