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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 | 58 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | "Dogwood Blossoms, Yosemite" |
photographs
16.5 x 10.2 cm (6.5 x 4 in)
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, mounted, framed
signed in pencil on the mount, titled on the reverse
Collection of Patricia English, the photographer"s assistant
Swann Galleries, 7 December 2006, Sale 2097, Lot 443, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960), p. 76
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 103
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 12
Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 133
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O"Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), p. 116
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972) , pl. 69
Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco, 1993), p. 67
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 6.20
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995) , p. 41
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 129
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 50
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
"Dogwood Blossoms, Yosemite"
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, titled on the reverse, framed, circa 1938, probably printed later
image: 6 1/2 by 4 in. (16.5 by 10.2 cm.)
frame: 20 by 17 in. (50.8 by 43.2 cm.)
