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

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

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Ansel Adams

The Sierra Club Outing, 1930

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

The Sierra Club Outing, 1930


(San Francisco: self-published, 1930, an edition of 8), a portfolio of 23 gelatin silver prints, each signed by the photographer in pencil in the margin and titled in pencil on the reverse; together with the letterpress title/colophon, numbered '3' by the photographer in ink, 10 framed. Small folio, green linen portfolio with flaps and ties, stamped leather title label on spine, no. 3 in a total edition of 8

Each image: 6 by 8 in. (15.2 by 20.3 cm.) or the reverse

Each frame: 23 by 18 3/4 in. (58.4 by 47.6 cm.) or the reverse

Sotheby's New York, 1 November 1989, Sale 5921, Lot 326

Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, New York, 2006, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent

DOWN BISHOP PASS, ON THE HERMIT, DAN TACHET, and MEADOW, NEAR BISHOP PASS:

Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection, August 2015 – January 2016