A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks

Ansel Adams

'Cedar Tree, Winter, Yosemite Valley'

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Cedar Tree, Winter, Yosemite Valley'

gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, signed and numbered '13' in pencil on the reverse, the photographer's San Francisco studio label (BMFA label 4), with typed title and negative number, on the reverse, framed, circa 1935, probably printed no later than 1944

image: 6 3/8 by 4 1/2 in. (16.2 by 11.4 cm.)

frame: 20 3/4 by 16 7/8 in. (52.7 by 42.9 cm.)

Please note, this print is possibly ferrotyped.

Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco, circa 2013, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent

Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 119

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 81

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 50

Another early print of this image is in the collection of the Ansel Adams archives at The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.