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

'Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California'

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California'


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp, titled and dated in ink, on the reverse, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse, 1948, printed in 1980

image: 19 5/8 by 15 1/2 in. (49.8 by 39.4 cm.)

frame: 35 1/2 by 29 3/8 in. (90.2 by 74.6 cm.)

Collection of Paul Harbaugh, Denver

Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, 2006

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 45

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 201 and back cover

Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 70

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), p. 123

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings on Hudson, 1972), pl. 72

Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 165

John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 1.1

Amy Scott, Art of An American Icon: Yosemite (Los Angeles, 2006), p. 128

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), p. 56

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 275

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 222

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 13

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 53