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

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

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Ansel Adams

Forest Floor, Yosemite Valley, California

Auction Closed

February 17, 07:14 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Forest Floor, Yosemite Valley, California


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed and with edition '44/50' in pencil on the mount, a New York Graphic Society label on the reverse, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery label on the reverse, circa 1950, printed in 1979

image: 15¼ by 19½ in. (38.7 by 49.5 cm.)

frame: 31½ by 35½ in. (80 by 90.2 cm.)

Sotheby's New York, 22 April 2006, Sale 8189, Lot 98; Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
Illustrated Guide to Yosemite (1963), pp. 92-3

Yosemite and the Range of Light (1979), pl. 11

Letters and Images (1988), p. 347

Trees (2004), p. 93

Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley (2014), p. 176

400 Photographs (2007), p. 346

This photograph was one of 5 images printed to accompany the deluxe edition of Adams’ 1979 publication Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979).