Lot 94
  • 94

Ansel Adams

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Description

  • Ansel Adams
  • MOONRISE, HERNANDEZ, NEW MEXICO
  • mural-sized gelatin silver
mural-sized, flush-mounted, framed, 1941, probably printed in the 1950s or 1960s

Literature

Other prints of this image:

Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 175

Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 37

Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 63

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 2002), p. 40

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 96

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), frontispiece

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, (Boston, 1985), pl. 32

Robert Doty, ed., Photography in America (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1974), pp. 130-31

Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House (Köln, 2000), p. 643

Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection (Birmingham, 1982), pl. 125

Condition

This impressive mural-sized print is in generally excellent condition. Upon the closest inspection, small deposits of a conservator's retouching are visible in the sky area. This print has recently undergone conservation, and a treatment report is available upon request. This mural is in a grey frame and is glazed.
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