http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8154ng6 No online items Finding aid prepared by Diann Benti. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Rare Books Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: reference@huntington.org URL: http://www.huntington.org 2015 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. 645289 1
Overview of the Collection Title: collection Dates (inclusive): 1930-1980 Bulk dates: 1950-1980 Collection Number: 645289 Creator: Waltman, Jack, collector.waltman, Beverly, collector. Extent: 55 items in 3 boxes. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Rare Books Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: reference@huntington.org URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: This collection contains fifty-five magazines, exhibition catalogs, brochures, and other printed material related to the career and life of Edward Weston (1886-1958), a pioneering 20th-century American photographer known for his exploration of form in landscapes, still lifes, and nudes. The collection includes published writings by and about Weston; publications containing his photographs; exhibition catalogs and brochures that feature his work and his contemporaries; as well as later tributes and articles about the photographer. Language: English. Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services. Publication Rights The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Provenance The Photographer: from a motion picture about Edward Weston was received as the gift of Jack and Beverly Waltman, August 2014; all other items are the gift of Jack and Beverly Waltman, March 2015. Biographical Note Edward Weston (1886-1958) was a pioneering 20th-century American photographer known for his exploration of form in landscapes, still lifes, and nudes. Weston was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 24, 1886, and later moved to the Los Angeles, California, area, where he opened a portrait studio in 1911. Weston moved to Northern California in 1929 and began taking photographs of the region including many in the Point Lobos area near Carmel. In the 1930s, Weston participated in numerous exhibitions and was involved with other California photographers including Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, and Weston's apprentice Willard Van Dyke, with whom Weston founded the Group f/64 photography group in 1932. In 1937, Weston became the first photographer awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant, and he published his first book of photographs, Seeing California with Edward Weston, in 1939. In the early 1940s, Weston selected and printed 500 of his photographs as a gift to the Huntington Library. Weston was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1947 and stopped taking photographs a year later. Weston died on January 1, 1958. One of Weston's sons, Brett Weston (1911-1993), became a photographer and often collaborated with his father. Scope and Content This collection contains fifty-five magazines, exhibition catalogs, brochures, and other printed material related to the career and life of American photographer Edward Weston. The collection includes published writings by and about Edward Weston; publications containing his photographs; exhibition catalogs and brochures that feature his work and his contemporaries; as well as later tributes and articles about the photographer. The materials also include information about Group f64 and some of the items also focus on the photography of Weston's son Brett Weston. 645289 2
Within the collection, there are seven periodicals with content by Weston, including three essays by Weston about photography in The Complete Photographer and American Photography. The twenty-nine periodicals with content about Weston include articles in photography journals, as well as popular magazines such as Westways, and vary from profiles of Weston to brief mentions of his work or articles accompanied by Weston's photographs. Edward Weston Photograph Collection (Art Collections) Jack and Beverly Waltman Collection (photcl 553) Wilson, Charis. Journal of Guggenheim year, 1937, March 22-1939, April 24 (msshm 51997) Wilson, Charis. Journal, letters and notes documenting the Whitman trip with Edward Weston, 1939-1996 (msswilson, Charis journal) Arrangement The materials are organized in 3 series: Periodicals with content by Weston (Items 1-7) Periodicals with content about Weston (Items 8-37) Exhibition catalogs and miscellaneous (Items 38-55) Within the series, items are arranged chronologically. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog. Subjects Weston, Brett. Weston, Brett -- Exhibitions. Weston, Edward, 1886-1958. Weston, Edward, 1886-1958 -- Exhibitions. Group f.64. Photographers -- California -- Biography. Photography, Artistic -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Photography -- Periodicals. Forms/Genres Exhibition Catalogs -- United States -- 20th century. Magazines (periodicals). Periodicals. Photographers Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984, photographer. Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991, photographer. Bernhard, Ruth, photographer. Gagliani, Oliver, photographer. Gilpin, Henry, 1922-2011, photographer. Garnett, William, 1916-2006, photographer. Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer. McSavaney, Ray, photographer. Sexton, John, 1953-, photographer. Weston, Brett, photographer. Weston, Edward, 1886-1958, photographer. Periodicals with content by Weston, 1942/1957 645289 3
Periodicals with content by Weston, 1942/1957 Box 1 Items 1-7 Item 1 The Complete Photographer, May 10, 1942 (Vol. 4, Issue 24) With photographs by Edward Weston on pp. 1541-1542. Item 2 The Complete Photographer, December 10, 1942 (Vol. 8, Issue 45) "Portrait Photography" by Edward Weston" (pp. 2935-2940). Item 3 The Complete Photographer, January 20, 1943 (Vol. 9, Issue 49) "Seeing Photographically" by Edward Weston (pp. 3200-3206). Item 4 The Complete Photographer, January 30, 1943 (Vol. 9, Issue 50) With photograph by Edward Weston on page 3255. Item 5 American Photography, December 1951 (Vol. 45, No. 12) "What is Photographic Beauty" by Edward Weston (pp. 738-743). Item 6 modern Photography, December 1953 (Vol. 17, No. 12) Color portfolio by Edward Weston with comments by Nancy Newhall. (pp. 54-59) Item 7 Great Photography Series 1: Studies of the Human Form by Two masters: John Rawlings and Edward Weston (Maco Magazine Corporation, New York), 1957 Periodicals with content about Weston, 1930-1980 Box 1 Items 8-18 Item 8 Touring Topics, June 1930 (Vol. 22, No. 6) "The Photography of Edward Weston" by Merle Armitage (Rotagravure Section) (Magazine + 4-pg supplement inserted between pp. 34-35). Item 9 Nature Magazine, March 1932 (Vol. 19, No. 3) "Beauty and the Vegetable: as caught by the searching lens of Edward Weston's Camera" by Richard W. Westwood (pp. 154-156). Item 10 The Camera: The Photographic Journal of America, September 1938 (Vol. 57, No. 3) "Edward Weston--A Word Portrait of the Man" by Thomas Welles (pp. 151-154). Item 11 Popular Photography, March 1946 (Vol. 18, No. 3) "Edward Weston in retrospect" by Beaumont Newhall (pp. 42-46). Item 12 modern Photography, June 1952 (Vol. 16, No. 6) "Edward Weston and the Nude" by Nancy Newhall (pp. 38-41, 107-110). Item 13 Image: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House, September 1955 (Vol. IV, No. 6) "Edward Weston-Photographer" by John Upton (pp. 44-45). Item 14 Carmel Pacific Spectator Journal, January 1958 (Vol. 15, No. 1) "In Memoriam: Edward Weston" (pp. 23-26). Item 15 Image: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the George Eastman House, March, 1958 (No. 59) "Edward Weston" (pp. 50-51). 645289 4
Periodicals with content about Weston, 1930-1980 Item 16 Camera, April, 1958 (No. 4) "Special Issue: Edward Weston." Item 17 U.S. Camera, May 1958 (Vol. 21, No. 5) "Edward Weston: Master Photographer" (pp. 66-68). Item 18 U.S. Camera, June 1958 (Vol. 21, No. 6) "Portrait of Weston" [Letter to the editor] (p. 6). Box 2 Items 19-37 Item 19 Image: The Bulletin of the George Eastman House of Photography, 1962 (Vol. 11, No. 1) "Weston Daybooks Published by Eastman House (pp. 1-2). Item 20 U.S. Camera, December 1962 "Edward Weston: Tools and Techniques of the Greatest Craftsman" by Arthur Kramer (pp. 58-61, 88). Item 21 Infinity (American Society of Magazine Photographers), February 1964 (Vol. XIII, No. 2) "Edward Weston" by Ansel Adams (pp. 16-17, 25-27). Item 22 PSA Journal: Official Publication of the Photographic Society of America, March 1966 (Vol. 32, No. 3, Part One) "Edward Weston: Photographer" by Ansel Adams (pp. 24-26, 45). Item 23 modern Photography, May 1969 (Vol. 33, No. 5) "Edward Weston: Dedicated to Simplicity" by Cole Weston (pp. 66-71, 104). Item 24 U.S. Camera Annual 1971, 1970 "Brett Weston" (pp. 126-129). Item 25 Westways, June 1970, Part One "Charis and Edward Weston's California and the West" by Lawrence Clark Powell (pp. 12-15, 60). Item 26 Westways, January 1973 "Lady of Taos" by Lawrence Clark Powell with photographs by Edward Weston (pp. 50-53, 64-65). Item 27 Camera, February 1973 (No. 2) With photographs by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Brett Weston. Item 28 Petersen's Photographic Magazine, February 1973 (Vol. 1, No. 10) "Edward Weston: A Legend in his own Lifetime" by Glen Fishback (pp. 76-79). Item 29 Game & Gossip: Today & Yesterday on the Monterrey Peninsula, May 15, 1974 (Vol. 19, No. 4) "Photography " [article on a gallery opened by Margaret Woodward Weston] (p. 12). Item 30 New York Magazine, February 24, 1975 (Vol. 8, No. 8) "Venus Beheaded: Weston and his Women" by Ben Maddow (pp. 44-53). 645289 5
Periodicals with content about Weston, 1930-1980 Item 31 Creative Camera, April 1975 (Number 130) "Edward Weston" (pp. 124-135). Item 32 The Print Collector's Newsletter, July-August 1975 (Vol. VI, No. 3) "A Look at Edward Weston" by Charles W. Millard. Item 33 Art in America, July-August 1975 "Edward Weston Rethought" by Andy Grundberg (pp. 29-31). Item 34 Westways, May 1976 (Vol. 68, No. 5) "Letters from the Southwest" by Lawrence Clark Powell with a photograph of G. Harold Powell by Edward Weston (pp. 22-25, 66-68). Item 35 Westways, August 1976 (Vol. 68, No. 8) "In Focus with Imogen Cunningham" by Judith Rich with photograph of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather on p. 20. (pp. 18-22, 72-73). Item 36 Westways, November 1977 (Vol. 69, No. 11) Small reference to Edward Weston in book review of Mabel: A Biography of Mabel Dodge Luhan (p. 62). Item 37 Photo Communique, May, June, July, August 1980 (Vol. 2, No. 2) Issue contains two photographs by Edward Weston: "Nude: Christel Gang" (1927) and "Portrait of Christel Gang" (1925) (pp. 12, 14). Exhibition catalogs and miscellaneous, approximately 1950-1978 Box 3 Items 38-54 Item 38 The Photographer: from a motion picture about Edward Weston, approximately 1950 15-page booklet with commentary from the film The Photographer (1948) about Edward Weston written by Irving Jacoby. Item 39 The West: A Portfolio of Photographs, 1953 Exhibit booklet with print reproductions, including Edward Weston, "Grass and Sea, Big Sur," (1937) and Brett Weston, "Mouth of Little Sur River" (1952), Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1953. Item 40 Creative Photography, 1956 Exhibit booklet, Lexington Camera Club and the Department of Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington, including Brett Weston and Edward Weston. Item 41 Edward Weston: 74 Photographs, November-December 1956 Exhibit booklet, Milwaukee Art Institute. Item 42 The Heritage of Edward Weston: an exhibition, a tribute, 1965 Exhibit booklet, University of Oregon, January 12-February 7, 1965. Item 43 Edward Weston, 1966 Exhibit booklet, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, May 13-June 26, 1966. Item 44 Fotografías de Edward Weston/Brett Weston, 1966 Exhibit booklet, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico. 645289 6
Exhibition catalogs and miscellaneous, approximately 1950-1978 Item 45 Photographs from the Coke Collection, Des Moines Art Center, 1970 Exhibit booklet, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, August 10-September 13, 1970. Item 46 11 American Photographers, 1972 Exhibit booklet, The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., April 10-May 12, 1972. Item 47 Photograph 1: Edward Weston, George A Tice, W Eugene Smith, Lewis W. Hine, 1972 Exhibit booklet, Cincinnati Art Club, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 11-18, 1972. Item 48 Photographer as Poet, 1973 Exhibit booklet, The Arts Club of Chicago, January 10-February 10, 1973. Item 49 Landscape/Cityscape: A Selection of Twentieth-Century American Photographs, [1973-1974] Exhibit booklet and checklist by Phyllis Dearborn Massar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 13, 1973-January 6, 1974. Item 50 Aperture Books, [1974] Advertisement and Reproduction Print for Edward Weston: Fifty Years. Item 51 New Portfolios, 1976 Exhibit booklet for photography exhibit including Brett Weston's "Portraits of My Father," Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, November 4-December 12, 1976. Item 52 Edward Weston, 1977 Exhibit booklet, Hayward Gallery, London, England, March 2-April 24, 1977. Item 53 Lines of Power, 1977 Exhibit booklet, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, March 12-April 9, 1977. Item 54 Group f. 64, 1978 Exhibit booklet, University of Missouri, St. Louis, April 3-30, 1978. Item 55 Edward Weston: Photographs and Papers (Guide Series Number Three, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona), 1980 645289 7