Brett Weston

Plastic Paint

1952

Not on view

Date
1952

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 15 × 13 5/16 in. (38.1 × 33.8 cm) Image: 9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in. (24.1 × 19.2 cm)

Accession number
92.105.1

Credit line
Gift of John L. Steffens

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/8144

Part of a series:
Fifteen Photographs
6 works

Clustered white houses with dark tiled roofs form a dense, geometric pattern across the town.
Ceiling grid with central cross beam and a row of silhouetted plants along a high planter.
Wrought-iron cross with two symmetrical scrolls mounted on a white paneled wall.
Close-up black-and-white print showing leaf cells outlined by white lines and a central vein.
Glass display shelves holding small carved figurines casting shadows and reflections from a barred window.
Abstract black-and-white feather-like patterns with radiating lines centered on a white mat.


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