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Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958) Pennsylvania Dutch Barn, 1941-42. Signed and dated "EW '42" l.r. Gelatin silver print, image size 7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (19.3 x 24.1 cm),matted, framed. Condition: Minor silver mirroring to the edges, mounted to paperboard, small mounting flaw l.r. N.B. In the 1940s, Edward Weston went on a cross-country journey to create photographs for a new edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Traveling with his wife in a Ford they named "Walt," he made photographs from his native California to Whitman's Brooklyn and as many places between as was possible. The project was Weston's most wide-ranging and included many portraits and photographs of human-altered landscapes. He did not set out to literally illustrate Whitman's prose, but to create a cross section of the American experience by photographing everything that excited him. Pennsylvania Dutch Bar, photographed during this project, features a dead-pan view that differed greatly from his native California and certainly caught and excited his eye.