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Panamints, Death Valley
1950 · halftone
Sheet: 36.7 x 30.2 cm (14 7/16 x 11 7/8 in.); Image: 19.1 x 24.3 cm (7 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Edward Weston
American, 1886
PhotographyConceptual ArtPhotography
Representation
None documented
50
Institutional Exhibitions
474
Works in Collection
738
Assets Indexed
4
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Conceptual Art
- • Photography
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Picturing "Greatness"
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
No image
Variants
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
No image
Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840�1985
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
No image
From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984–1985
No image
Still Life
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981–1982
About
Why this artist matters now
Edward Weston was an American photographer who pioneered a sharp-focus, high-contrast aesthetic that transformed photography into a fine art medium. Working primarily in black and white, he composed intimate studies of vegetables, shells, nudes, and landscapes with precise formal abstraction, treating organic forms as sculptural subjects. His influential approach to photographic composition and tonality shaped modernist photography from the 1920s onward. Weston's legacy rests on his insistence that photography required the same conceptual rigor and material mastery as painting or sculpture.
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Movement
Conceptual Art
Medium
Photography
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Artworks (474)
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Movements and affiliations
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Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Whitney Museum of American Art
Market
Auction sale history
Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction
Market
Auction History
Range: $50,800 – $515,250
| Work | Auction House | Date | Estimate | Hammer Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christie's | Apr 2026 | $50,000 – $70,000 | $50,800 | |
| Christie's | Sep 2025 | $150,000 – $250,000 | $190,500 | |
| Christie's | Oct 2024 | €80,000 – €120,000 | €88,200 | |
| Christie's | May 2024 | $800,000 – $1,200,000 | Unsold | |
| Christie's | Mar 2024 | $50,000 – $70,000 | $63,000 | |
| Christie's | Feb 2024 | $80,000 – $120,000 | $151,200 | |
| Christie's | Mar 2023 | $50,000 – $70,000 | $94,500 | |
| Christie's | Sep 2022 | $100,000 – $150,000 | $226,800 | |
| Christie's | Sep 2022 | $100,000 – $150,000 | $113,400 | |
| Christie's | Mar 2022 | $70,000 – $100,000 | $107,100 |
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