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 Sierra Club Outing, 1929
Auction Closed
December 14, 10:16 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
The Sierra Club Outing, 1929
(San Francisco: self-published, 1929, an edition of 25), a portfolio of 25 gelatin silver prints, each signed ‘Ansel E. Adams’ and numbered sequentially in pencil in the margin, 16 framed, 1929, Small folio, green linen portfolio with flaps and ties, no. 20 in a total edition of 25
Each image approximately: 7 5/8 by 5 7/8 in. (19.4 by 14.9 cm.) or the reverse
The largest frame: 19 by 23 in. (48.3 by 58.4 cm.) or the reverse
By descent in family
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, 2006, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
Santa Fe, The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, May – September 2008, and traveling thereafter to The Norton Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection, August 2015 – January 2016
MONOLITH:
Indianapolis, The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Ansel Adams, March – August 2014
RAINBOW FALLS:
Greenwich, The Royal Museums Greenwich, Photography From the Mountains to the Sea, November 2012 – April 2013, and traveling thereafter to:
Sydney, Australian National Maritime Museum, July – December 2013
SEVEN GABLES, DEVIL'S POSTPILE, MINARETS-ICEBERG LAKE, RAINBOW FALLS, MOUNT CLARK-ECHO RIDGE, and MOUNT CONNESS-TENAYA LAKE:
Santa Fe, The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, May – September 2008; traveling thereafter to The Norton Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Rebecca Senf notes that the 1929 Sierra Club portfolio includes several images from previously made negatives as the outing covered territory he had already photographed. Four images also included in Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras [see Lot 91] were revisited and featured.
Extant, intact sets for The Sierra Club Outing 1929 are rare. At the time of this writing, only three other sets are believed to have come to market in nearly three decades.