In Focus: Edward Weston Villa Paul Getty Museum's canvas is

Paul Getty Museum's canvas is one of the artist's many pictures depicting women and children engaged in daily activities

5 drawings

Paul Getty Museum's collection that embrace theatricality and are unconcerned with documenting the world as it exists

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In Focus: Edward Weston Villa Paul Getty Museum's canvas isBrett Abbott Edward Weston (18861958) helped define twentieth century American photography. Weston wed machine age aesthetics with vernacular subjects, pursuing Modernism as a way of seeing. He produced works of art using subject matter as wide ranging as sea shells, green peppers, sand dunes, and nudes, and he set a standard for elegant composition and print technique for generations of photographers. The more than fifty works included here were made