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

Ansel Adams

'Mount Lyell and Mount MacClure [sic], Yosemite National Park'

Auction Closed

February 17, 07:14 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Mount Lyell and Mount MacClure [sic], Yosemite National Park'

gelatin silver print, titled and annotated 'telephotograph' in ink and with a 'Photographed in Yosemite by Ansel Adams' stamp and a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, 1929; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 6 by 9¼ in. (15.2 by 23.5 cm.)

frame: 18¾ by 20⅞ in. (47.6 by 53 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2007

Ansel Adams at 100 (2001), pl. 6

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ansel Adams at 100, August 2001 – January 2002, and traveling thereafter to:

The Art Institute of Chicago, February – June 2002

London, Hayward Gallery, July – September 2002

Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, October 2002 – January 2003

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February – April 2003

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, July – November 2003