Skip to main content

Visit Main Menu Block

  • Hours & Admission
  • Accessibility & Amenities
  • Tours & Group Visits
  • Visitor Guidelines

Exhibitions and Events Main Menu Block

  • Exhibitions
  • Events

Art and Design Main Menu Block

  • The Collection
  • Projects & Publications
  • Past Exhibitions

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Give
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Image

Previous 1 / 1 Next

Edward Weston

Nude, 1936

Description

Maker

  • Edward Weston, 1886-1958, American
  • Printer Cole Weston, 1919-2003

Title

Nude

Year

1936

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silver print,
  • silver gelatin print

Dimensions

24.1 x 19.1 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Titled on verso in pencil and the notation:Negative by Edward Weston Print by Cole Weston

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

71.117.2

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Changing Poses

November 12, 2010 - June 6, 2011

The nude woman in this photograph is Charis Wilson, who began working with Edward Weston in 1934 as his driver and model and soon became his lover and wife. “He didn’t give any directions,” Wilson recalled in an interview, “He just said: ‘Go over there and sit down or lie down, or do what you feel like doing and move around all you want. Change your position as you want to.’” Once when Weston was shooting the empty landscape of Oceano Dunes, California, Wilson spontaneously removed her clothes and began to roll in the sand. The ten resulting images, including this picture, are striking for both their bold compositions and their uninhibited display of the female body.

Related

No Image Available

Edward Weston

series (group); photograph, 1900s

More objects +

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Nude with the accession number of 71.117.2. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

Feedback

We view our online collection as a living documents, and our records are frequently revised and enhanced. If you have additional information or have spotted an error, please send feedback to curatorial@risd.edu.

RISD Museum

  •  Facebook
  •  Twitter
  •  Instagram
  •  Vimeo
  •  Pinterest
  •  SoundCloud

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Give
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Footer Secondary

  • Image Request
  • Press Office
  • Rent the Museum
  • Terms of Use