A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks
A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks
Ansel Adams
The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Auction Closed
December 14, 10:16 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
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Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
mural-sized gelatin silver print, signed twice in ink on the image, flush-mounted, with partial title in ink on the reverse, framed, 1942, probably printed in the 1960s; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)
image: 38 7/8 by 51 7/8 in. (98.7 by 131.8 cm.)
frame: 53 3/4 by 69 1/2 in. (136.5 by 176.5 cm.)
By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s
Acquired from the above, 2006
Ansel Adams, The Print (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1968), fig. 1
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings on Hudson, 1972), pl. 56
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 192
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 35
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 331
Peter Wright and John Armor, The Mural Project: Photographs by Ansel Adams (Santa Barbara, 1989), p. 73
Andrea Gray Stillman and William A. Turnage, eds., Our National Parks (Boston, 1992), cover and p. 31
Ansel Adams: The National Park Services Photographs (London, 1994), pl. 137
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), cover and p. 205
Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Ansel Adams: Landscape of the American West (London, 2008), pp. 44-5
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.7