# Edward Weston artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/edward-weston/
Profile generated: 2026-08-18T18:23:50.562Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Photography, Black-and-white photography, Large-format photography using an 8 × 10 camera

## Portrait

![Edward Weston](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Edward_Weston_by_Rae_Davis%2C_c1914.jpg/1280px-Edward_Weston_by_Rae_Davis%2C_c1914.jpg)
Rae Davis · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Weston_by_Rae_Davis,_c1914.jpg

## About Edward Weston

Edward Weston (1886–1958) was an American photographer whose approximately 40-year career encompassed portraiture, still life, nudes, landscapes, genre scenes, and occasional parody. Working extensively with an 8 × 10 view camera, he produced black-and-white studies of people, objects, and natural forms. Point Lobos, California, became an especially important setting: accounts and museum holdings document his attention to trees, rocks, roots, and coastal vegetation. Museum collections also demonstrate his range, from portraits of Diego Rivera and Violet Romer to Shell and Cypress Root and Succulents, Point Lobos. Collectors therefore encounter Weston through more than one signature subject. His name may appear on portraits, studio still lifes, nudes, landscapes, and close studies of organic form, as well as in auction records for photographic works. Entity matching should distinguish Edward Henry Weston, the American photographer born in 1886, from other people sharing the Weston surname.

## Common works and media

Weston's documented work consists primarily of photographs. Common subjects include portraits, landscapes, still lifes, shells, nudes, figure studies, and close observations of trees, rocks, roots, and other natural forms. Point Lobos subjects are particularly prominent in museum and biographical records. For appraisal, record the photograph's medium, dimensions, date, condition, inscriptions, edition details, provenance, and any exhibition or catalogue history rather than relying on subject identification alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Edward Weston auction records should be compared at the level of the individual photograph. Relevant factors include medium, dimensions, date, career period, condition, restoration history, surface quality, signatures or inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and attribution confidence. Subject matter and rarity can also affect how useful a comparable is. Recent public sales are most informative when the works share these characteristics; a broad artist-level result should not be treated as a prediction for another photograph. Reported auction totals may also differ in whether fees or buyer premiums are included, so the terms of each record should be checked before comparison.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q346988
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/22173983/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/029597072
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/6329
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-weston-2720
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.6749.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Weston
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Weston
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/edward-weston/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Weston_by_Rae_Davis,_c1914.jpg