Name: EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)
Brand: Church, Motherlode (Church Door, Hornitos), 1940
Price: 24000.00 USD
Availability: InStock

EDWARD WESTON (1886–1958)
Church, Motherlode (Church Door, Hornitos), 1940
gelatin silver print, mounted on card, printed by 1945
initialed and dated in pencil (mount, recto); signed, titled, dated, numbered 'ML40-H-6' and inscribed 'To John - / remembering New York in 1922 / E - 1945' in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 7⁵⁄₈ x 9⁵⁄₈ in. (19.4 x 24.4 cm.)
mount: 14¹⁄₈ x 15⁵⁄₈ in. (35.9 x 39.7 cm.)

The artist to his brother-in-law, John Seaman, 1945;
by descent to his daughter, Jeannette Seaman;
by descent to her nephew, John W. Longstreth;
Sotheby's, New York, April 8, 2008, lot 93;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibition Catalogue, Edward Weston's Gifts to His Sister, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, 1978, pp. 7, 53.
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, Center for Creative Photography/The University of Arizona, Tuscon, 1992, fig. 1505/1940.
Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition, Aperture, New York, 1993, p. 89.
Exhibition Catalogue, Edward Weston: A Legacy, Merrell/The Huntington Library, London/San Marino, 2003, pl. 56, p 174.
Edward Weston: 1886-1958, Taschen, Cologne, 2017, p. 209.

Dayton, The Dayton Art Institute, Edward Weston's Gifts to His Sister, January - March 1978.
Dayton, The Dayton Art Institute, Edward Weston: A Photographer's Love of Life, February – July 2004.

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The image (oftentimes referred to as Church Door, Hornitos, California) was made during the first photographic workshop held in Yosemite, the U.S. Camera Photographic Forum of 1940, which was taught by Weston and Ansel Adams. By 1940, Hornitos had shrunk in population significantly, following its glorious years during the Gold Rush in the mid-19^thcentury and would have been best described as a ‘ghost town’ at the time of this image. The door in the image is of St. Catherine’s Catholic Church, built in 1862.

The present lot was originally given to the artist’s brother-in-law John Seaman in 1945, passed through the family, and was eventually included in the prestigious auction Edward Weston’s Gifts to His Sister in 2008. Other prints of this celebrated image are in museum collections including, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the George Eastman House, Rochester; and the J. Paul Getty Museum.