The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Dunes and Mountains, White Sands
1945
(American, 1911–1993)
Image: 19.4 x 24.6 cm (7 5/8 x 9 11/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1986.32
© The Brett Weston Archive
Location: not on view
Description
The army reassigned Weston from New York to a fort near El Paso, Texas, in 1945. On the cross-country drive, he encountered the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, the world’s largest area of white gypsum sand dunes. The glistening, pale sand formed an enticingly minimalist backdrop for the cacti and grasses that survived in this harsh desert climate. Weston spent his free time during his remaining year in the service photographing there, and continued shooting the dunes after his discharge.- Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. no. 81, p. 120, repr. p. 91Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1986." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 2 (1987): 38-79. p. 67, no. 97, repr. p. 66 25159974Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 372
- Brett Weston: Photographs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 21-May 6, 2018).The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).American Space: Landscape Photography 1900-1950. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 6-May 23, 2001).Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).
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