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

Ansel Adams

'Dogwood Blossoms, Yosemite'

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Dogwood Blossoms, Yosemite'

ferrotyped gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, titled on the reverse, framed, circa 1938, probably printed later

image: 6 1/2 by 4 in. (16.5 by 10.2 cm.)

frame: 20 by 17 in. (50.8 by 43.2 cm.)

Collection of Patricia English, the photographer's assistant

Swann Galleries, 7 December 2006, Sale 2097, Lot 443, 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

Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light, March – July 2016

Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960), p. 76

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 103

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 12

Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 133

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), p. 116

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972) , pl. 69

Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco, 1993), p. 67

John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 6.20

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995) , p. 41

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 129

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 50