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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 27, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 42 | $****** - ****** | Teton Landscapes (3 photographs) |
photographs
11.4 x 8.9 cm (4.5 x 3.5 in)
a group of 3 unique Polaroid Type 52 and Type 55 prints, comprising The Tetons and Split Rail Fence ; The Tetons, Meadow, and Fog ; and The Snake River and The Tetons, each framed
the first and second annotated with technical data in ink in the margin or on the reverse; the last with Polaroid Collection and Ansel Adams & Edwin Land exhibition labels and a Polaroid Collection stamp on the reverse
The Polaroid Corporate Collection
Sotheby"s New York, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection , 21-22 June 2010, Sale 8649, Lot 408
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The Snake River and The Tetons:
Pittsburgh, Ansel Adams at Silver Eye Center for Photography , November 1999 - January 2000
Quito, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, From the Polaroid Collection: Ansel Adams , sponsored by the Embassy of the United States, October - November 2001, and traveling thereafter to: Paris, Le Carousel de Louvre, November 2002; Milan, Castello Sforzesco, March - May 2003; Savigano sul Rubicone, Palazzo Vendemini, September 2003
Naples, Florida, Museum of Art, Ansel Adams & Edwin Land: Art, Science and Invention, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection , May - July 2004, and traveling thereafter to: Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, August - October 2004; Vero Beach, Museum of Art, April - June 2005; Reading, Pennsylvania, Public Museum, October 2005 - January 2006; Jacksonville, The Cummer Museum and Cultural Center, March - June 2006; Longmont, Colorado, Museum and Cultural Center, December 2006 - February 2007; Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum of Art, March - June 2007; University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, July - September 2007
The Snake River and the Tetons :
Ansel Adams, Polaroid Land Photography (Boston, 1978), p. 56 (likely this print)
Constance Sullivan, ed., Legacy of Light (New York, 1987), p. 22
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
Teton Landscapes (3 photographs)
a group of 3 unique Polaroid Type 52 and Type 55 prints, comprising The Tetons and Split Rail Fence ; The Tetons, Meadow, and Fog ; and The Snake River and The Tetons , the first and second annotated with technical data in ink in the margin or on the reverse, each framed, the last with Polaroid Collection and Ansel Adams & Edwin Land exhibition labels and a Polaroid Collection stamp on the reverse
images: 4½ by 3½ in. (11.5 by 8.9 cm.) or the reverse
frames approximately: 12 by 15 in. (30.5 by 38.1 cm.) or the reverse
Executed circa 1965.
