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Edward Weston
Twenty Mule Team Canyon, Death Valley1938

Not on view
Black and white photograph of a deeply eroded desert rock formation with sharp ridges and vertical channels, flat-topped plateau, and dramatic cloud-filled sky

Edward Weston, Twenty Mule Team Canyon, Death Valley, 1938, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Anonymous gift, digital image © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Edward Weston
Title
Twenty Mule Team Canyon, Death Valley
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1938
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 7 1/2 × 9 9/16 in. (19.05 × 24.29 cm) Primary support: 7 1/2 × 9 9/16 in. (19.05 × 24.29 cm) Secondary support: 14 1/16 × 15 5/8 in. (35.72 × 39.69 cm) Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number
46.61.13
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • The California pop-up book. New York: Universe Pub. in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.
Copyright
© 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents