White Sands, 1946

BRETT WESTON (1911–1993)
White Sands, 1946
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1949. Portfolio of ten rare vintage prints plus four later prints, each mounted on board and enclosed in plastic sleeves; ten signed, dated and numbered sequentially ‘p1-p10’ in pencil and printed 1949 (mount, verso), four signed and dated in pencil and printed 1975 (mount, recto), inscribed in pencil (portfolio cover, interior); each image/sheet approximately 7 ½ x 9 ½ in. (19 x 24.1 cm.), each mount 12 x 14 in. (30.4 x 35.5 cm.); together with two copies of artist biography written by Nancy Newhall; portfolio from an edition of fifty; ten works contained in a cloth four-sided collapsible hardcovered enclosure embossed with artist name and title, all works contained collectively in larger four sided collapsible cloth enclosure with gold lettering.

From the artist to Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica;
acquired from the above by a private collector, California.