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Property from a Private Collection, New Hampshire

Ansel Adams

Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California

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Property from a Private Collection, New Hampshire

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984


Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California

signed in pencil (on the mount); the photographer's Carmel Studio stamps (BMFA 7 & 8), with title in ink (on the reverse)

gelatin silver print, mounted

15 ¼ by 19 ⅛ in.

38.7 by 48.6 cm.

Executed in 1944, probably printed between 1963 and 1970.

Private Collection, Maine

Barridoff Auctions, South Portland, Maine, 17 August 2024, lot 37

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Ansel Adams, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans, New York, 1944, pp. 18-19, illustration of another example

Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, The Pageant of History in Northern California, San Francisco, 1954, pl. 2, illustration of another example

Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams, Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972, pl. 80, illustration of another example

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light, Boston, 1979, pl. 46, illustration of another example

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Boston, 1983, p. 66, illustration of another example

James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984, Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984, p. 16, illustration of another example

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Boston, 1985, pl. 40, illustration of another example

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness, Boston, 1990, pl. 28, illustration of another example

Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend, San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1993, p. 20, illustration of another example

Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Boston, 2007, p. 261, illustration of another example

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams, Boston, 2012, p. 158, illustration of another example

Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, New Haven, 2020, fig. 6.3, illustration of another example