Ansel Adams 1902-1984

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

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Description

Ansel Adams
'ASPENS, NORTHERN NEW MEXICO'

plate 6 from Portfolio VII (New York, 1976), mounted to thick board, signed by the photographer and numbered sequentially and '87/115' in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount, the portfolio stamp on the reverse, matted, 1958, printed in 1976, no. 87 in a total edition of 115

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner from G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, 1979

Literature

Other prints of this image:

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (Boston, 2001), pp. 104-05

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 116

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 314

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 116

Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 174

Jane Swan Bush, ed., Ansel Adams: Trees (New York and Boston, 2004), p. 9

Andrea G. Stillman, ed., The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), p. 85

Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (The Museum of Modern Art, 1964), p. 131

Catalogue Note

In a 1976 letter, The Museum of Modern Art's John Szarkowski wrote to Ansel Adams after receiving Portfolio VII,

'It is simply magnificent. . . And some of the old friends are better than ever in these prints. I don't think I have ever seen such a beautiful print of the Horizontal Aspens. It is simply radiant. This is also one of my all-time favorites; I find it even more moving than the great vertical aspens' (Ansel Adams: Letters and Images, 1916-1984, p. 341).