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Ansel Adams

‘Signal Hill, Long Beach, California (Oil Derricks and Monument)’

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April 16, 04:13 PM GMT

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984


‘Signal Hill, Long Beach, California (Oil Derricks and Monument)’

gelatin silver print, mounted to Hi-Art illustration board, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 & 8), titled and dated in ink, and a collection stamp on the reverse

image: 14 ¼ by 18 in. (36.2 by 45.7 cm.)

Executed in 1939, probably printed between 1963 and 1970.

Collection of Anne Adams Helms (the photographer's daughter)

By descent through family to the present owner

Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams, Hastings-on-Hudson 1972, pl. 102

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, New York and Boston 1977, p. 118

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Boston 1985, p. 319