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
The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Auction Closed
December 14, 10:16 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
mural-sized gelatin silver print, signed twice in ink on the image, flush-mounted, with partial title in ink on the reverse, framed, 1942, probably printed in the 1960s; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)
image: 38 7/8 by 51 7/8 in. (98.7 by 131.8 cm.)
frame: 53 3/4 by 69 1/2 in. (136.5 by 176.5 cm.)
By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s
Acquired from the above, 2006
Ansel Adams, The Print (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1968), fig. 1
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings on Hudson, 1972), pl. 56
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 192
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 35
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 331
Peter Wright and John Armor, The Mural Project: Photographs by Ansel Adams (Santa Barbara, 1989), p. 73
Andrea Gray Stillman and William A. Turnage, eds., Our National Parks (Boston, 1992), cover and p. 31
Ansel Adams: The National Park Services Photographs (London, 1994), pl. 137
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), cover and p. 205
Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Ansel Adams: Landscape of the American West (London, 2008), pp. 44-5
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.7
Yosemite, The Ansel Adams Gallery, 1983 (On the occasion of the Royal Visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Yosemite)
Carpinteria, The Cate School, Ansel Adams: 1902-1984, 1984
Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, 1989
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Art Center, Ansel Adams: The Museum Set, November 1995 – January 1996
Napa, Mumm Gallery, January 1997 – May 1998
Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection, August 2015 – January 2016