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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 14, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks | 6 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | "Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California" |
photographs
49.9 x 39.4 cm (19.63 x 15.5 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted, framed
signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamp, titled and dated in ink, on the reverse; an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse
Collection of Paul Harbaugh, Denver
Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, 2006
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 45
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 201 and back cover
Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 70
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O"Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), p. 123
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings on Hudson, 1972), pl. 72
Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 165
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 1.1
Amy Scott, Art of An American Icon: Yosemite (Los Angeles, 2006), p. 128
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), p. 56
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 275
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 222
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 13
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 53
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
"Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California"
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamp, titled and dated in ink, on the reverse, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse, 1948, printed in 1980
image: 19 5/8 by 15 1/2 in. (49.8 by 39.4 cm.)
frame: 35 1/2 by 29 3/8 in. (90.2 by 74.6 cm.)
