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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 25, 2025 | Christie's | New York | Photographs | 50 | $****** - ****** | Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California | |||
Apr 6, 2011 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 5 | $****** - ****** | Winter Storm Yosemite Valley (Clearing Winter Storm) |
photographs
55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted to Hi-Art illustration board
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled in ink in photographer"s Carmel credit stamp [BMFA stamp 7] (mount, verso)
Sotheby"s, New York, April 6, 2011, lot 5;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1960, p. 85.
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1963, pp. 88-89.
Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography , Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1985, p. 243.
Andrea G. Stillman , Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 369.
Paul Brooks, Yosemite and the Range of Light , Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1992, cover and frontispiece.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 89.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams: Divine Performance , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, fig. 5.5, p. 120.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pl. 57, p. 90.
ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California, 1938
gelatin silver print, mounted to Hi-Art illustration board, printed probably 1960s
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled in ink in photographer"s Carmel credit stamp [BMFA stamp 7] (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 15 1 / 4 x 19 3 / 8 in. (38.7 x 49.2 cm.)
mount: 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm.)
