Ansel Adams

mounted on Hi-Art illustration board, signed in ink on the mount, Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 and 8), titled in ink, on the reverse, 1964, probably printed before 1970 (400 Photographs, p. 397)

This photograph is in generally excellent condition. Visible in raking light and upon close examination are 3 pen-point-sized impressions which do not break the emulsion, and a tiny crack in the emulsion along the bottom edge of the image. The mount is age-darkened around the periphery of the print. Karen Haas's and Rebecca Senf's book, 'Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection,' publishes the most comprehensive list to date of the studio stamps and labels Adams used throughout his career. The authors' assessment of the use dates of stamps 7 and 8 on the reverse of the print's mount is 1963 to 1970.
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