A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks
A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks
Ansel Adams
Snow-Covered Tree
Auction Closed
December 14, 10:16 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
Snow-Covered Tree
gelatin silver print, signed 'Ansel E. Adams' in pencil in the margin, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse, 1930; accompanied by the original mount, inscribed 'To our dear Sara and Erskine with love, Ansel & V.' in ink (2)
image: 7 3/4 by 6 in. (19.7 by 15.2 cm.)
frame: 23 by 19 in. (58.4 by 48.3 cm.)
The photographer to Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sarah Bard Field Wood
By descent in family, 2005
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 2006, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe as agent
By descent in family, 2005
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 2006, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe as agent
'Sara and Erskine,' to whom this photograph is inscribed, are Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood. From 1935 until his death in 1944, Wood, an American novelist, civil liberties advocate and attorney, and his second wife, Sara Bard Field, a poet and suffragist, lived in Los Gatos, California. Their home, which they named 'The Cats,' played host to notable figures such as John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, Chief Joseph, Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, and Ansel Adams. Field and Wood both wrote poetry, and Albert M. Bender, friend and patron of Adams's projects, provided economic support for a book of their work in 1937.