Touring Exhibitions

Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow

EXHIBITION
Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow

ORGANIZER
Co-organized by The Phillips Collection and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Brett Weston Archive

DESCRIPTION
Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow is the first major retrospective of Brett Weston’s work in over 30 years. Although Brett Weston was a key player in the photography world during his lifetime, he was often overshadowed by his father, Edward. Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow brings to light the younger Weston’s unique creative spirit by examining his long career. The exhibition presents 136 photographs taken in Mexico and California in the 1920s and 1930s, East Coast images from the 1940s, and landscape and nature photographs taken after he returned to the West Coast in 1948. Many of these images push toward pure abstraction, putting Weston at the forefront of non-objective, fine-art photography.

Exhibition lenders are the Oklahoma City Museum of Art; The Brett Weston Archive; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

CURATOR
Stephen Bennett Phillips, Fine Arts Program Director at the Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.

CATALOGUE
Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow is accompanied by a 160-page, illustrated catalogue, published by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, with essays by Johanna Halford-MacLeod and Stephen Bennett Phillips and Scott Hale.

EXHIBITION DETAILS
Space Required: The exhibition requires approximately 500-600 linear feet and 5000-6000 square feet
Dates of Exhibition: Tour Beginning Summer 2008

TOUR ITINERARY

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
March 20 through May 18, 2008

The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
June 21 through September 7, 2008

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Early 2009

Open
Dates

[all dates subject to change]

CONTACT
Matthew Leininger, Traveling Exhibition Administrator
(405) 278-8214, mleininger@okcmoa.com