Ansel Adams

Parmelian print, signed and numbered '369' in pencil in the margin, 1927 

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (Sierra Club, 1963), dust jacket and p. 45

Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 8

Ansel Adams, Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 54

Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 77

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea G. Stillman, eds., Ansel Adams: Letters and Images, 1916 - 1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 31

Karen E. Quinn and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Ansel Adams: The Early Years (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1991), pl. 6

Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), facing p. 106

Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005), pl. 5

Andrea G. Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs  (New York, 2007), p. 35

This photograph, with the rich warm tones and deep charcoal-like blacks typical of Parmelian prints, is in generally excellent condition. Three tiny rust-colored deposits of indeterminate nature are visible in the lower margin. The reverse of the print is hinged along the upper edge with two small pieces of rice-paper tape.
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