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

Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco


gelatin silver print, mounted to Crescent illustration board, signed in ink on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 5) on the reverse, framed, 1932, probably printed between 1962 and 1963

image: 7 5/8 by 9 1/2 in. (19.4 by 24.1 cm.)

frame: 21 by 23 in. (53.3 by 58.4 cm.)

Mary Heath Keesling Trust, San Francisco

Bonhams & Butterfields, 24 May 2007, Sale 14799, Lot 415, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 33

Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), unpaginated illustration

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, (Boston, 1985), pl. 7

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 2002), p. 32

Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005), pl. 19

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 67