Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Ansel Adams
The Tetons and The Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
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October 7, 02:46 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
The Tetons and The Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
oversized gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date '1942' in ink, on the reverse, framed, 1942, probably printed between 1973 and 1977
image: 18 ¾ by 23 ⅜ in. (47.6 by 59.4 cm.)
frame: 28 ¼ by 36 ¼ in. (71.8 by 92.1 cm.)
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, circa 1980
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960) p. 15
Ansel Adams, The Print (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1968), fig. 1
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 56
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 192
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 35
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 331
Peter Wright and John Armor, The Mural Project: Photographs by Ansel Adams (Santa Barbara, 1989), p. 73
Andrea Gray Stillman and William A. Turnage, eds., Our National Parks (Boston, 1992), cover and p. 31
Ansel Adams: The National Park Services Photographs (London, 1994), pl. 137
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), cover and p. 205
Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Ansel Adams: Landscape of the American West (London, 2008), pp. 44-5
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.7