Snow and Reeds

Brett Weston

1977

  • Titles Snow and Reeds (Descriptive)
  • Artist Brett Weston, American, 1911 - 1993
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) image: 10 3/4 × 12 3/4 in. (27.3 × 32.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift from the Christian Keesee Collection, AFI.73.2018, image © The Brett Weston Archive
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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