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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 29, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 34 | $****** - ****** | Good | Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine California |
photographs
45.7 x 71.1 cm (18 x 28 in)
gelatin silver print
signed in ink on the reverse
The photographer to Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg (1908-1992), noted philanthropist, founder of the American Ballet, and longtime trustee of The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By descent to his wife Mary Warburg (1908-2009)
Bequeathed to the present owner
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960), pp. ii-iii
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution, 1963), unpaginated
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 77
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 99
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 162
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 262
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 38
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 275
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 6.12
Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco, 1993), p. 66
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 85
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 245
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O"Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), p. 115
Jeff Putman & Genny Smith, eds., Deepest Valley: Guide to Owens Valley (Bakersfield, 2014), cover and frontispiece
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.4
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine California
gelatin silver print, signed in ink on the reverse, framed, 1944, probably printed circa 1950
image: 18 by 28 in. (45.7 by 71.1 cm.)
frame: 27 by 37 in. (68.6 by 94 cm.)
