[Leica] FW: Re: Weston Exhibit at LA County Museum of Art

["Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>]

This is the info from the LACMA homepage on the Weston exhibit:

Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism
 February 11, 1999 – May 3, 1999

 Through approximately 140 rare vintage prints, LACMA premieres
 an exhibition that provides an opportunity to thoroughly examine the
 modernist pictoral development of Weston (United States,
 1886-1958). It will include many of his best-known works as well as
 many that have been rarely exhibited. Beginning with his
 constructivist-inspired portraits from 1918-1922, this exhibition
 traces the artist’s career through the breakthrough work he did at
 Armco Steel in 1922, and the three productive years spent in
 Mexico. Upon his return to California in 1927, Weston went on to
 produce many of his quintessential modernist works including the
 exquisite Chambered Nautilus (1927) and the anthropomorphic
 Pepper series. Also included are the innovative, nearly abstract
 studies of rocks, trees, and dunes at Northern California’s Point
 Lobos as well as a series of his classic nudes executed during the
 first half of the 1930s. Weston’s telling portraits of his
 contemporaries such as Jose Clemente Orozco, Igor Stravinsky,
 and e.e. cummings lead to a concluding group of images from the
 late 1930s and early 1940s that reflect his interest in surrealism,
 including Rubber Dummy, M.G.M. (1939). The exhibition concludes
 with a surprising group of images that show a marked affinity to the
 gestural freedom of the abstract expressionists.

 This is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum
 of Fine Arts in Boston drawn from the collection of Mrs. William H.
 Lane.

 Credit Line: This exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine
 Arts, Boston.
 LACMA Coordinating Curator: Tim B. Wride, associate curator of
 photography
 Venues Following the LACMA Exhibition:

        The Cleveland Museum of Art 9/19-11/28/99
        The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 3/28-6/18/00
        The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. early 2002