Shell 1, 1927

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24.13 × 19.05 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 46.04 × 38.1 cm (18 1/8 × 15 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Agnes S. Wolf

Accession Number

2013.27.1

Artists / Makers

Edward Weston (artist) American, 1886 - 1958

Image Use

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Inscription

signed by artist, on mount, lower left in graphite: _Shell 1_; lower right: Edward Weston / 1927; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 9052 / [b?]

Provenance

Edward Weston; Agnes Strauss-Weil, New York, c. 1929; by descent to Agnes S. Wolf, her daughter, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Wolf, Agnes S.

Exhibition History

2015: In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015