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

'Telephone Wires, Snow Yosemite'

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Telephone Wires, Snow Yosemite'


gelatin silver print, mounted to card, the 'Photograph by Ansel Adams' stamp, signed, titled, and with negative number by Virginia Best Adams in pencil, and a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, 1930

image: 3 7/8 by 4 3/4 in. (9.8 by 12.1 cm.)

frame: 17 by 21 in. (43.2 by 53.3 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2007

Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 158

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