Classic Photographs

Ansel Adams

The Golden Gate Before the Building of the Bridge

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October 7, 02:36 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

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Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

The Golden Gate Before the Building of the Bridge

gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 and 8), with title in ink, on the reverse, framed, 1932, probably printed between 1963 and 1970

image: 14 ⅜ by 18 ⅛ in. (36.5 by 46 cm.)

frame: 25 ¾ by 29 ¾ in. (65.4 by 75.6 cm.)

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 23

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 11

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 114

James and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A San Francisco Heritage (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987), pl. 2

Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), unpaginated

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: California (Boston, 1997), p. 17

Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2005), pl. 21

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 175