Photographs
Photographs
ANSEL ADAMS | 'BOARDS AND THISTLES'
Lot Closed
April 3, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection, Sold to Benefit The Asia Foundation
ANSEL ADAMS
1902-1984
'BOARDS AND THISTLES'
mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, titled by Virginia Adams, the photographer's widow, in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Michael Shapiro Photographs label on the reverse, 1932
9⅛ by 6½ in. (23.2 by 16.5 cm.)
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 1997
Private collection
Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport, 2012
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 113
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 28
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 65
Jill Quasha, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs (New York, 1991), pl. 52
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (New York, 2007), p. 63