Stanford University
Exhibition

West x Southwest: Edward Weston and Ansel Adams

September 26, 2019–January 6, 2020

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Edward Weston (U.S.A., 1886–1958), Guadalupe Marín de Rivera, Mexico, 1923. Gelatin silver print. © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents. The Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection at Stanford University, 2019.48.13

Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery (211)

Explore landscapes, still lifes, nudes, and portraits created by Edward Weston in Mexico and Ansel Adams in the American Southwest.

The Capital Group Foundation’s gift of 1,000 photographs to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University includes works by American photographic masters Ansel Adams, Edward Curtis, John Gutmann, Helen Levitt, Wright Morris, Gordon Parks, and Edward Weston. 

Read the Stanford Arts Q&A with curator Elizabeth Mitchell on gifts to the Cantor.