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

Ansel Adams

Latch And Chain, Mineral King, California

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Latch And Chain, Mineral King, California

gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp, with title, date and annotation 'Remounted 4/4/80' in ink, on the reverse, framed, 1927

image: 9 by 6 5/8 in. (22.9 by 16.8 cm.)

frame: 23 by 19 in. (58.4 by 48.3 cm.)

The photographer to Patricia English, his assistant

Swann Galleries, New York, 19 October 2006, Sale 2089, Lot 133, 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

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

Andrea Gray, Ansel Adams: An American Place, 1936 (Tucson, 1982), cover and pl. 1

Another early print of this image is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Mineral King is a glacial valley located in the southern part of Sequoia National Park. The name Mineral King also refers to the historic mining camps and towns in and near the valley.