Classic Photographs

Ansel Adams

Oak Tree, Snowstorm

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October 5, 03:09 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Oak Tree, Snowstorm

gelatin silver print, Plate 9 from Portfolio I (San Francisco, 1948), mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the portfolio stamp, numbered '9' of set '9' in an unidentified hand in red pencil, on the reverse, framed, 1948, no. 9 in a total edition of 75

image: 9 ⅜ by 7 ½ in. (23.8 by 19.1 cm.)

frame: 18 ⅜ by 16 ¼ in. (46.7 by 41.3 cm.)

Collection of Shirley Carter Burden

By descent through family to the present owners

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 13

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), p. 45

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 275

Andrea Gray Stilman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), pl. 56

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), p. 53

Laguna Beach Art Gallery, March - April 1965

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Shirley C. Burden Photographic Collection, February - April 1978