Edward Weston

Edward Henry Weston was an American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes, and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and especially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years.

Works in Collection

259 works

"Johnny"

Edward Weston

1944

"Willie," St. Roch Cemetery, New Orleans

Edward Weston

1941

Albion, North Coast

Edward Weston

1937

Alcatraz, San Francisco

Edward Weston

1937

Armco Steel, Ohio

Edward Weston

1922

Artichoke Halved

Edward Weston

1930

Aspen Valley, New Mexico

Edward Weston

1937

Aspen Valley, New Mexico

Edward Weston

1937

At San Carlos Lake, Arizona

Edward Weston

1938

Attic

Edward Weston

1921

Beaumont Newhall

Edward Weston

1940

Beaumont Newhall on Rocks

Edward Weston

1945

Beaumont and Nancy Newhall on Rocks

Edward Weston

1945

Belle Grove Plantation House, Louisiana

Edward Weston

1941

Belle Grove Plantation House, Louisiana

Edward Weston

1941

Big Sur Coast

Edward Weston

1940

Boat Builder, Wilmington

Edward Weston

1935

Boat, San Francisco

Edward Weston

1925

Boulder Dam

Edward Weston

1941

Brett on Point Lobos

Edward Weston

1942

Brown Jones, Athens, Georgia

Edward Weston

1941

Bug Tracks on Sand, Oceano

Edward Weston

1935

Buzzard, Mojave Desert

Edward Weston

1937

Cabbage

Edward Weston

1936

Exhibitions

50 exhibitions

Mar 17, 1937 – Apr 18, 1937

Photography 1839–1937

243 artists · 1 curator

May 24, 1938 – Jul 31, 1938

Three Centuries of American Art

247 artists · 7 curators

Dec 31, 1940 – Jan 12, 1941

Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics

30 artists · 2 curators

Dec 03, 1941 – Jan 04, 1942

American Photographs at $10

9 artists

Jan 13, 1942 – Feb 25, 1942

New Acquisitions: Photographs

13 artists

Apr 28, 1943 – Jun 13, 1943

Religious Folk Art of the Southwest

6 artists

Nov 04, 1943 – Dec 07, 1943

Portraits

38 artists

May 24, 1944 – Sep 17, 1944

Photography

63 artists · 1 curator

Jun 20, 1945 – Jun 23, 1946

The Museum Collection of Photographs

25 artists

Feb 13, 1946 – Mar 31, 1946

The Photographs of Edward Weston

1 artist · 1 curator

Apr 06, 1948 – Jul 11, 1948

In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography

79 artists · 1 curator

Jul 27, 1948 – Sep 26, 1948

50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

50 artists · 1 curator

May 09, 1950 – Jul 04, 1950

Color Photography

89 artists · 1 curator

May 01, 1951 – Jul 04, 1951

Abstraction in Photography

105 artists · 1 curator

Jul 12, 1951 – Aug 12, 1951

12 Photographers

12 artists · 1 curator

Nov 29, 1951 – Jan 06, 1952

Christmas Photographs

38 artists · 1 curator

May 20, 1952 – Sep 01, 1952

Diogenes with a Camera

6 artists · 1 curator

Aug 05, 1952 – Aug 18, 1952

Then and Now

54 artists · 1 curator

Jan 24, 1955 – May 08, 1955

The Family of Man

251 artists · 2 curators

Nov 26, 1958 – Jan 18, 1959

Photographs from the Museum Collection

273 artists · 1 curator

Nov 18, 1959 – Nov 29, 1959

30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

140 artists

Feb 17, 1960 – Apr 10, 1960

The Sense of Abstraction

18 artists · 2 curators

May 04, 1960 – Sep 18, 1960

Portraits from the Museum Collection

92 artists · 1 curator

Apr 03, 1962 – May 15, 1962

50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

50 artists · 1 curator

Sep 24, 1963 – Dec 01, 1963

The Photographer and the American Landscape

19 artists · 1 curator

May 27, 1964

Edward Steichen Photography Center

130 artists · 1 curator

May 27, 1964 – Aug 23, 1964

The Photographer's Eye

105 artists · 1 curator

Dec 14, 1966 – Feb 12, 1967

From the McAlpin Collection

10 artists · 1 curator

Jul 21, 1967 – Oct 08, 1967

Photography: Recent Acquisitions

5 artists

Oct 25, 1967

Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

77 artists

Mar 19, 1968 – May 27, 1968

Photography as Printmaking

54 artists · 1 curator

Jul 09, 1969 – Sep 28, 1969

Portrait Photographs

43 artists · 1 curator

Jul 01, 1971 – Sep 27, 1971

The Artist as Adversary

140 artists · 1 curator

Sep 07, 1971 – Nov 30, 1971

Photographs of Women

33 artists · 1 curator

Jan 22, 1973 – Mar 18, 1973

25 Recent Acquisitions

16 artists

Sep 11, 1974 – Dec 01, 1974

Public Landscapes

23 artists · 1 curator

Jan 29, 1975 – Mar 30, 1975

Edward Weston

1 artist

Mar 16, 1976 – Jun 20, 1976

Photography for Collectors

63 artists · 1 curator

May 06, 1976 – Jul 18, 1976

Photography: Recent Acquisitions, 1974–1976

33 artists · 1 curator

Apr 17, 1978 – Jul 04, 1978

Art for Corporations

34 artists

Jun 04, 1979 – Jul 30, 1979

Views over America

35 artists · 1 curator

Nov 14, 1979 – Jan 22, 1980

Art of the Twenties

167 artists · 1 curator

Nov 14, 1979 – Mar 16, 1980

In the Twenties: Portraits from the Photography Collection

19 artists · 1 curator

Oct 23, 1980

Reinstallation of the Collection

129 artists

Jul 09, 1981 – Oct 04, 1981

American Landscapes

40 artists · 1 curator

Oct 08, 1981 – Jan 03, 1982

Still Life

29 artists · 1 curator

Nov 15, 1984 – Mar 03, 1985

From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink

25 artists · 1 curator

Nov 07, 1985 – Jan 07, 1986

Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985

58 artists · 1 curator

Dec 12, 1985 – Mar 11, 1986

Variants

20 artists · 1 curator

Jan 14, 1988 – Apr 17, 1988

Picturing "Greatness"

17 artists · 2 curators