Ansel Adams
Aspens, Northern New Mexico (vertical)
Estimate:
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
Aspens, Northern New Mexico (vertical)
mural-sized gelatin silver print, signed with a stylus on the image, flush-mounted, a Hunter's Point Boys Club, San Francisco, dedication label on the reverse, framed, 1958, printed no later than 1968
image: 52 by 40 1/4 in. (132.1 by 102.2 cm.)
frame: 85 1/2 by 53 1/2 in. (217.2 by 135.9 cm.)
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Private collection by descent
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
Private collection, Indiana, 1997
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 2007, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 63
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 177
James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 20
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 63
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), front leaf
Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 7
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 49
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 95
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963), p. 19
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 9.1
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), spine and p. 373
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 200