A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks

Ansel Adams

'In Yosemite Valley' (Cottonwood Trunks)

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'In Yosemite Valley' (Cottonwood Trunks)

gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, mounted again to slick board, signed 'Ansel E Adams' and titled in pencil and with typed label on the mount, titled in pencil and with the photographer's San Francisco studio label (BMFA Label 3) on the reverse, framed, 1932, probably printed before 1935

image: 9 1/2 by 7 in. (24.1 by 17.8 cm.)

frame: 22 7/8 by 18 3/4 in. (58.1 by 47.6 cm.)

Weston Gallery, Carmel-by-the-Sea

Private collection

Christie’s New York, 5 April 2000, Sale 9330, Lot 29

Weston Gallery, Carmel-by-the-Sea, 2006, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent

Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection, August 2015 – January 2016

Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (New York, 2004), p. 86

Andrea Gray, Ansel Adams: An American Place, 1936 (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1982) frontispiece and pl. 11

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (New York, 2007), p. 81