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Ansel Adams

'Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine California' (Winter Sunrise)

Lot Closed

March 17, 04:10 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine California' (Winter Sunrise)


signed Ansel Adams (on a typed label on the reverse of the mount)

mural-sized gelatin silver print, flush-mounted

18 by 28 in.

45.7 by 71.1 cm.

Executed in 1944 and probably printed circa 1950.

The photographer to Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg (1908-1992), noted philanthropist, founder of the American Ballet, and longtime trustee of The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By descent to his wife Mary Warburg (1908-2009)

Acquired by bequest from the above by the present owner

Ansel Adams & Nancy Newhall, This Is the American Earth, San Francisco, 1960, pp. ii-iii, illustrated

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light, Boston, 1979, pl. 99, illustrated

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Boston, 1983, p. 162, illustrated

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Boston, 1985, p. 262, illustrated

James Alinder & John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Boston, 1985, pl. 38, illustrated

Mary Street Alinder & Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Boston, 1988, p. 275, illustrated

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, & Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, Boston, 2008, p. 115

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams, Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972, pl. 77, illustrated

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., 1963, no.p., illustrated

Jeff Putman & Genny Smith, eds., Deepest Valley: Guide to Owens Valley, Bakersfield, 2014, cover and frontispiece, illustrated

Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend, San Francisco, 1993, p. 66, illustrated

John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography, Boston, 1992, fig. 6.12, illustrated

Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, New Haven, 2020, fig. 6.4, illustrated

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Boston, 2007, p. 245, illustrated

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco, 2001, pl. 85, illustrated