Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston

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Lot 50
  • 50

Ansel Adams 1902-1984

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Ansel Adams
  • 'DOORWAY, BLAWENBURG, NEW JERSEY'
mounted to card, signed by the photographer in pencil, his 'Ansel Adams, Box 455, Yosemite National Park, California' stamp (BMFA 3) and printing notations in red and blue ink on the mount, his letterpress San Francisco studio label (BMFA 4), with typed title and date, on the reverse, matted, 1939

Provenance

Private Collection, New York

Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia

Sotheby's New York, 10 November 1986, Sale 5510, Lot 17

Private Collection, Colorado

Sotheby's New York, 23 April 1994, Sale 6551, Lot 155

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above

Exhibited

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, Ansel Adams: From the Private Collection of Margaret Weston, July - September 1995

San Francisco, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams: From the Private Collection of Maggi Weston, May - September 1996

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003

Literature

Ansel Adams: From the Private Collection of Margaret Weston (Carmel: Center for Photographic Art, 1996, in conjunction with the exhibition), unpaginated (this print)

Ansel Adams, The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging (Morgan & Morgan, 1968), p. 44 (possibly this print)

Catalogue Note

The image offered here was included in Adams's 1950 book, The Print--Contact Printing and Enlarging, Basic Photo 3, with the title, Colonial Doorway, New Jersey, as an example of 'a problem of luminous whites and shadows.'  Blawenburg, New Jersey, is near Princeton, home of David McAlpin (see Lots 49, 50, and 51).