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Ansel Adams

Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine California

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October 5, 04:32 PM GMT

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50,000 - 70,000 USD

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine California


gelatin silver print, signed in ink on the reverse, framed, 1944, probably printed circa 1950

image: 18 by 28 in. (45.7 by 71.1 cm.)

frame: 27 by 37 in. (68.6 by 94 cm.)

The photographer to Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg (1908-1992), noted philanthropist, founder of the American Ballet, and longtime trustee of The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By descent to his wife Mary Warburg (1908-2009)

Bequeathed to the present owner

Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960), pp. ii-iii

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian

Institution, 1963), unpaginated

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 77

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 99

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 162

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 262

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 38

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 275

John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 6.12

Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco, 1993), p. 66

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 85

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 245

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), p. 115

Jeff Putman & Genny Smith, eds., Deepest Valley: Guide to Owens Valley (Bakersfield, 2014), cover and frontispiece

Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.4