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

Ansel Adams

Aspens, Northern New Mexico (vertical)

Auction Closed

February 17, 07:14 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Aspens, Northern New Mexico (vertical)

mural-sized gelatin silver print, signed with a stylus on the image, flush-mounted, a Hunter's Point Boys Club, San Francisco, dedication label on the reverse, framed, 1958, printed no later than 1968

image: 52 by 40¼ in. (132.1 by 102.2 cm.)

frame: 65¾ by 53½ in. (167 by 135.9 cm.)

Gift of Hunter's Point Boys Club to Thomas E. Harris, San Francisco, 1968

Private collection by descent

Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco

Private collection, Indiana, 1997

Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 2007, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent

The Camera (1980), cover and fig. 11-1

Examples (1983), p. 63

An Autobiography (1985), p. 177

Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (1984), p. 20

Classic Images (1985), pl. 63

Letters and Images 1916-1984 (1988), front leaf

Trees (2004), p. 7

Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (2005), pl. 49

Ansel Adams (1972), pl. 95

The Eloquent Light (1963), p. 19

Basic Techniques of Photography (1992), fig. 9.1

400 Photographs (2007), spine and p. 373

Looking at Ansel Adams (2012), p. 200

Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light, March – July 2016