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Ansel Adams

'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico'

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July 17, 04:48 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

 

'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico'

signed in pencil (on the mount), the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date in ink (on the reverse)

gelatin silver print

15 by 19½ in.

39.4 by 49.5 cm.

Executed in 1941, probably printed between 1973-77.

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams, Hastings on Hudson, 1972, pl. 63 (another example illustrated)

Robert Doty, ed., Photography in America, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974, pp. 130-31 (another example illustrated)

Ansel Adams and Lawrence Clark Powell, Photographs of the Southwest, Boston, 1976, pl. 55 (another example illustrated)

Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection, Birmingham, 1982, pl. 125 (another example illustrated)

James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, 1984, p. 55 (another example illustrated)

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Boston, 1985, pl. 32 (another example illustrated)

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Boston, 1988, p. 142 (another example illustrated)

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest, Boston, 2000, frontispiece (another example illustrated)

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001, pl. 96 (another example illustrated)

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Boston, 2002, p. 40 (another example illustrated)

Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pl. 37 (another example illustrated)

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Boston, 2007, p. 175 (another example illustrated)

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, Boston, 2008, fig. 3 and p. 109 (another example illustrated)

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams, Boston, 2012, p. 119 (another example illustrated)

Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Köln, 2000, p. 643 (another example illustrated)

Karen E. Haas, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection, Boston, 2011, pl. 8 (another example illustrated)

Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, New Haven, 2020, fig. 6.15 (another example illustrated)