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

Ansel Adams

'Barn, Cape Cod, Massachusetts'

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Barn, Cape Cod, Massachusetts'

gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp, with title and date in ink, on the reverse, framed, circa 1937, probably printed in the 1970s

image: 9 1/2 by 13 5/8 in. (24.1 by 34.6 cm.)

frame: 23 by 27 in. (58.4 by 68.6 cm.)

Brochofosky Gallery, Ketchum

Etherton Gallery, Tucson, 2002, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 24

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), p. 21

John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), figs. 5.4 and 9.13

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 263

'Cape Cod in Springtime... The weather was balmy, shadblow in bloom everywhere. Adams found many subjects: saltbox houses, several fine barns, an old windmill and gravestones in ancient cemeteries. His best photograph in the region is of a white barn sternly rising beyond a picket fence. Adams admits it may recall Paul Strand's "Picket Fence," but it was visualized on its own merits. It has appeared in the Encyclopedia Britannica and many exhibits.' (David McAlpin, 'Photographic Experiences with Ansel Adams,' Singular Images, unpaginated)