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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 | 96 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | "Mt. Williamson from Manzanar, California" |
photographs
38.1 x 47 cm (15 x 18.5 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted, framed
signed in pencil on the mount, signed, inscribed "For the Sidney Liebes with the warm regards of Ansel Adams", titled, and annotated "Courtesy FORTUNE Magazine, Must not be Reproduced" in pencil and with the photographer"s San Francisco studio stamp (BMFA 4) on the reverse; an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse
The photographer to Sidney and Marjorie Liebes
By descent in family, 2006, Andrea Stillman and Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agents
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
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 388
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings on Hudson, 1972), pl. 80
Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco, 1993), p. 20
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), cover and p. 267
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.3
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 261
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 97
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
"Mt. Williamson from Manzanar, California"
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, signed, inscribed "For the Sidney Liebes with the warm regards of Ansel Adams", titled, and annotated "Courtesy FORTUNE Magazine, Must not be Reproduced" in pencil and with the photographer"s San Francisco studio stamp (BMFA 4) on the reverse, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse, 1944, probably printed in the early 1950s
image: 15 by 18 1/2 in. (38.1 by 47 cm.)
frame: 31 1/4 by 35 1/2 in. (79.4 by 90.2 cm.)
