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

Ansel Adams

Grand Canyon from Cape Royal, Arizona

Auction Closed

February 17, 07:14 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Grand Canyon from Cape Royal, Arizona

gelatin silver print, signed and annotated 'Variation of #62' in ink and with a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, circa 1942; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 9¼ by 12⅞ in. (23.5 by 32.7 cm.)

frame: 18⅞ by 22¾ in. (48 by 57.8 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2007

National Park Service Photographs (1994), pl. 36

The Mural Project (1989), pl. 13

Landscapes of the American West (2008), pp. 138-9

The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (2000), p. 12

400 Photographs (2007), p. 202

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