A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks
A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks
Ansel Adams
'Glacier Polish, Lyell Fork Of Merced River, Yosemite National Park'
Auction Closed
December 14, 10:16 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
'Glacier Polish, Lyell Fork Of Merced River, Yosemite National Park'
gelatin silver print, title and annotations in pencil and ink and with the 'Photograph by Ansel Adams' stamp, signed by Virginia Best Adams in pencil, and a Michael Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, Museum of Modern Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art loan labels on the reverse, circa 1935; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)
image: 7 1/4 by 9 1/2 in. (18.4 by 24.1 cm.)
frame: 15 1/4 by 19 1/4 in. (38.7 by 48.9 cm.)
By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s
Acquired from the above, 2006
Ansel Adams and John Muir, Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada (Boston, 1948), pl. 49
Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 31
Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (New York, 2014), p. 56
Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, 1986
Napa, Mumm Gallery, 2001
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ansel Adams at 100, August 2001 - January 2002, and traveling thereafter to:
The Art Institute of Chicago, February - June 2002
London, Hayward Gallery, July - September 2002
Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, October 2002 - January 2003
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February - April 2003
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, July - November 2003
Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection, August 2015 – January 2016