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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 5, 2022 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 22 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | Mt. Williamson Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California |
photographs
39.4 x 47 cm (15.5 x 18.5 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted
signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date in ink, on the reverse, 1944
Collection of John and Lou Glasse, Poughkeepsie
By descent to the present owner
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, The Pageant of History in Northern California (San Francisco, 1954), pl. 2
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 46
Ansel Adams, The Camera (Boston, 1980), fig.1-1
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 66
James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 , (The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, 1984), p. 16
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 40
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings on Hudson, 1972), pl. 80
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 388
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), cover and p. 267
Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco, 1993), p. 20
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 97
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 261
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.3
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
'Mt. Williamson, Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California'
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date in ink, on the reverse, 1944, probably printed between 1973 and 1977
image: 15 ½ by 18 ½ in. (39.4 by 47 cm.)
