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

'Monument Valley, Utah'

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Monument Valley, Utah'


gelatin silver print, mounted to Crescent illustration board, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 5 and 6), titled in ink, and with a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp, on the reverse, framed, 1958, probably printed between 1962 and 1963; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 7 5/8 by 9 5/8 in. (19.4 by 24.4 cm.)

frame: 16 3/4 by 20 7/8 in. (42.5 by 50 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2006

Ansel Adams and Lawrence Clark Powell, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 41

Ansel Adams, The Camera (Boston, 1980), fig. 10-9

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 58

John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 5.7

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 336

Fresno, First Federal Savings & Loan, 1982

Yosemite, The Ansel Adams Gallery, 1983 (On the occasion of the Royal Visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Yosemite)

Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, 1986

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