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

'Fallen Tree, Kern River Canyon' (Sequoia National Park, California)

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Fallen Tree, Kern River Canyon' (Sequoia National Park, California)


gelatin silver print, title in ink, annotations in pencil and ink, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), and with a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, circa 1935, probably printed between 1973 and 1977; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 9 7/8 by 12 in. (25.1 by 30.5 cm.)

frame: 18 3/4 by 22 3/4 in. (47.6 by 57.8 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2007

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 62

Ansel Adams, Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail ( New York, 2006), pl. 48

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 119

Modena, Fondazione Cassa de Risparmio de Modena, Ansel Adams La Natura è il mio Regno, September 2011 –  January 2012

Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection, August 2015 – January 2016

Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light, March – July 2016