This rich, vintage print of one of Brett's earliest masterpieces is signed and dated in pencil mount recto. Made when Brett was just 22-years-old, a year after his solo retrospective at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, this image bears all the hallmarks of a pared-down, potently austere Weston photograph. Brett's father, Edward, made similar compositions of palm trunks in Mexico the decade earlier, which likely impressed the teenage Brett. This important print is accompanied by a sheet annotated by Bob Byers, a good friend and photographic peer of Brett’s, from whose collection this print originates. This print is also accompanied by a letter from Brett to Byers confirming that this is a vintage print, made soon after the negative was developed. Around 1990, Byers mounted on museum board many of Brett’s loose contact prints, all of which are vintage despite being mounted later.