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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 | 107 | $****** - ****** | Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California |
photographs
48.3 x 87.3 cm (19 x 34.38 in)
mural-sized gelatin silver print, mounted, framed
Alinder Gallery, Gualala, 2001, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
Andrea Gray Stillman , Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 134 (this print)
Variant cropping :
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960), pp. ii-iii
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
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O"Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), p. 115
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 77
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
Jeff Putman & Genny Smith, eds., Deepest Valley: Guide to Owens Valley (Bakersfield, 2014), cover and frontispiece
Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco, 1993), p. 66
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 6.12
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.4
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 245
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 85
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California
mural-sized gelatin silver print, mounted, framed, 1944, printed circa 1955
image: 19 by 34 3/8 in. (48.3 by 87.3 cm.)
frame: 35 by 49 1/2 in. (88.9 by 125.7 cm.)
