Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston

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Lot 53
  • 53

Ansel Adams 1902-1984

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Ansel Adams
  • 'PENITENTE MORADA, COYOTE, NEW MEXICO'
mounted, signed by the photographer in pencil on the mount, the 'Photograph by Ansel Adams, Property of the Virginia Adams Trust,' 'Virginia Adams Collection,' and Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust copyright stamps on the reverse, matted, circa 1950, printed in the 1970s

Provenance

The Collection of Virginia Best Adams, the photographer's wife

The Friends of Photography Auction, San Francisco, 1995

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above

Exhibited

Carmel, Center for Photographic Art, Ansel Adams: From the Private Collection of Margaret Weston, July - September 1995

San Francisco, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams: From the Private Collection of Maggi Weston, May - September 1996

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003

Literature

Other prints of this image:

Ansel Adams and Lawrence Clark Powell, Photographs of the Southwest: Selected Photographs Made from 1928 to 1968 in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Utah (Boston, 1976, in conjunction with the exhibition at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson), pl. 62

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 59

Catalogue Note

The print offered here was donated by the photographer's widow, Virginia Adams, to a 1995 auction benefiting The Friends of Photography.  The Friends of Photography was founded in Carmel in early 1967 by Ansel Adams, Nancy and Beaumont Newhall, Brett and Cole Weston, Morley Baer, and other prominent photographers, bringing to fruition a wish by Adams and the Newhalls to establish an independent photographic center on the West Coast.