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Ansel Adams

'Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras'

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February 17, 07:14 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras'


(San Francisco: Jean Chambers Moore, 1927, an edition of 150), a portfolio of 18 gelatin silver prints, each signed 'A. E. Adams' in pencil and with the letterpress title in the margin, in individual letterpress title wrappers, one framed, 1920s, printed in 1927; together with the letterpress title, colophon, dedication to Albert M. Bender, and plate list. Small folio, modern gilt-lettered black cloth portfolio with gold silk lining, one of a projected edition of 150 of which approximately 75 sets were completed

images: each approximately 8 by 6 in. (20 by 15.2 cm.) or the reverse

A Grove of Tamarack Pine:

frame: 17 by 19¾ in. (43.2 by 50.2 cm.)

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, 2007

Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, 2007

Indianapolis, The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Ansel Adams, March – August 2014
Making a Photographer (2020), fig. 2.3