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

'Sierra Nevada' (Two Dead Trees Against Black Sky)

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Sierra Nevada' (Two Dead Trees Against Black Sky)


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, titled, and dated in pencil and with a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, Museum of Modern Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art loan labels on the reverse, 1925, probably printed in the 1930s

image: 7 7/8 by 5 1/2 in. (20 by 14 cm.)

frame: 19 1/4 by 15 1/4 in. (48.9 by 38.7 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2006

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 39 (this print)

Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 25