Ansel Adams
Silverton, Colorado
Auction Closed
December 14, 10:16 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
Silverton, Colorado
mural-sized gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, matted, signed in pencil on the mat, framed, the photographer's Carmel label on the reverse, 1951, printed later; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)
image: 29 1/2 by 38 in. (74.9 by 96.5 cm.)
frame: 48 1/2 by 57 1/2 in. (123.2 by 146.1 cm.)
By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1987
Acquired from the above, 2006
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, Ansel Adams: One With Beauty, May – September 1987
Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, 1989
Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection, August 2015 – January 2016
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 323
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 30
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig 6.10
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 366
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 100