Lot 100
  • 100

Ansel Adams

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Description

  • Ansel Adams
  • CLEARING WINTER STORM, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK
  • mural sized gelatin silver
mural-sized, flush-mounted, framed, 1938, probably printed in the 1950s or 1960s

Literature

Other prints of this image:

Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 123

Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 71

Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), cover

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 102

Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 243

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 46

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 369

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), pl. 1

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (Boston, 2001), p. 89

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 49

Condition

This majestic mural-sized print is in generally excellent condition. The photograph is on a sturdy foamcore mount. The photograph has undergone conservation. This conservation was successful, and a treatment report is available upon request. This photograph is in a thin white frame and is glazed.
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