Ansel Adams

Collection of John and Lou Glasse, Poughkeepsie

By descent to the present owner

Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, The Pageant of History in Northern California (San Francisco, 1954), pl. 2

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 46

Ansel Adams, The Camera (Boston, 1980), fig.1-1

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 66

James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984, (The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, 1984), p. 16

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 40

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings on Hudson, 1972), pl. 80

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 388

John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), cover and p. 267

Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco, 1993), p. 20

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 97

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 261

Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.3

This photograph comes originally from the collection of John Glasse (1922-2014), a Professor of Religion at Vassar College from 1956 to 1990. An accomplished photographer himself, Glasse began collecting photographs in earnest in the 1970s, frequenting early New York galleries like LIGHT Gallery and Witkin Gallery. He focused on 20th century photographers such as Imogen Cunningham (Lot 112), Alfred Stieglitz (Lot 53), Ansel Adams ( Lot 22), Frederick Sommer (Lots 148 and 149) and Paul Strand (Lots 111, 147, and 150). Professor Glasse curated an exhibition of Paul Strand photographs at the Vassar College Art Gallery in 1977 and organized a symposium in honor of Frederick Sommer’s 75th birthday in 1985.