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

Ansel Adams

Mount Clarence King

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December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Mount Clarence King

gelatin silver print, the photographer's studio stamp (BMFA 2) and a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, circa 1923, probably printed in in the 1930s or 1940s; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 4 5/8 by 3 7/8 in. (11.7 by 9.8 cm.)

frame: 19 7/8 by 16 7/8 in. (50.5 by 42.9 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2007

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), plate 4 (this print)

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 19

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ansel Adams at 100, August 2001 – January 2002, and traveling thereafter to:

The Art Institute of Chicago, February – June 2002

London, Hayward Gallery, July – September 2002

Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, October 2002 – January 2003

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February – April 2003

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, July - November 2003

This print, made from a glass plate negative, was probably taken in 1925 when Adams was on a trip into the Kings River Canyon with Professor Joseph N. LeConte and his family. There is another early print of this image in the Ansel Adams archive at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.