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Portfolio of photographs

Edward Weston, 1930–1946

V&A South Kensington, London

Purchased with a donation of £3,750 from the Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust through the Art Fund, these 13 photographs by Edward Weston are part of a portfolio including another 4 photographs by Paul Strand which marked the first two major acquisitions of photographs through the Art Fund, in 1975.The work illustrated is one of the 3 prints called 'Oceano', 1936 in the Portfolio. Other subjects include Point Lobos, Yosemite and scenes in New Mexico.

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Title of artwork, date

Portfolio of photographs, 1930–1946

Date supported

1975

Medium and material

Gelatin-silver print

Gifted by

Gordon Fraser Trust

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