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

Ansel Adams

'Lichen on Stone, Glacier National Park'

Auction Closed

February 17, 07:14 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Lichen on Stone, Glacier National Park'

gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's San Francisco studio label (BMFA Label 6), typed title, and dated ‘1946-7’ and annotated ‘8x10 print’ in ink, annotated 'Adams-US-1-Nov-127' and ‘8x10 - Not Toned’ in ink, and with a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, circa 1941; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 9½ by 7½ in. (24.1 by 19.1 cm.)

frame: 21⅛ by 17⅛ in. (53.7 by 43.5 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2007

Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams (2008), p. 121 (this print)

National Park Service Photographs (1994), pl. 176

America's Wilderness (1997), p. 126

Landscapes of the American West (2008), pp. 80-1