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

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

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Ansel Adams

'Boards and Thistles'

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Boards and Thistles'


gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, mounted again, signed in pencil on the mount, titled and annotated '25.00' in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1932

image: 9 1/4 by 6 1/2 in. (23.5 by 16.5 cm.)

frame: 23 by 18 3/4 in. (58.4 by 47.6 cm.)

Gift of the photographer to The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sotheby’s New York, Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, 25 April 2001, Sale 7632, Lot 184

Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco

Weston Gallery, Carmel-by-the-Sea, 2006, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent

Ansel Adams, Making a Photograph (London, 1948), p. 8

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 113

Ansel Adams, The Camera (Boston, 1980), fig. 9-9

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 28

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 65

Jill Quasha, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs (New York, 1991), pl. 52

John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), p. 93

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (New York, 2007), p. 63

Mary Street Alinder, Group f.64 (New York, 2014), fig. 70