Lot 88
  • 88

Ansel Adams

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Ansel Adams
  • ASPENS, NORTHERN NEW MEXICO
  • mural sized gelatin silver
mural-sized, flush-mounted, framed, 1958, probably printed in the 1960s

Literature

Other prints of this image:

Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), cover and p. 375

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

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, eds., 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

Condition

This luminous mural-sized print exhibits a great deal of detail throughout the image. It is in generally excellent condition. The photograph has recently undergone successful conservation, and a treatment report is available upon request. Upon very close examination, a 4-inch scratch that has been inpainted is visible. The photograph is in a thin white frame and is glazed.
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