Cabbage Leaf

Cabbage Leaf is a photograph taken by Edward Weston in 1931. The picture demonstrates the artist renewed interest in the physical textures of vegetables, seashells and other objects that were the subject of many of his photographs at this time.

Weston took atention in particular to cabbages and would photograph several arrangements of this vegetable, from 1929 to 1936.[1] The present Cabbage Leaf is probably the most known of this series. In the early 1930s, by the time he took this picture, he wrote that: “[the] cabbage has renewed my interest, marvellous hearts, like carved ivory, leaves with veins like flames, with forms curved like the most exquisite shell… in the cabbage I sense the entire secret of life’s force.”[2]

There are several prints of this photograph, including those preserved at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[3][4][5]

References
  1. Edward Weston Artworks, The Art Story
  2. Edward Weston’s ‘Cabbage’, an Icon of Modernist Photography, Huxley-Parlour
  3. Cabbage Leaf, Art Institute of Chicago
  4. Cabbage Leaf, MoMa
  5. Cabbage Leaf, National Museum of American History
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