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Ansel Adams

Snag Near Scotia, Mendico, California

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December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Snag Near Scotia, Mendico, California


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in ink on the mount, with '3-CAL-53' in pencil and the Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Modern Art loan labels on the reverse, circa 1938 

image: 6 1/2 by 4 1/4 in. (16.5 by 10.8 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

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ansel Adams at 100, August 2001 - January 2002, and traveling thereafter to:

The Art Institute of Chicago, February - June 2002

London, Hayward Gallery, July - September 2002

Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, October 2002 - January 2003

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February - April 2003

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, July - November 2003

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 40 (this print)

There is another early print of this image in the Ansel Adams archive at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona