Ansel Adams

The Estate of the photographer to The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984

Acquired from the above, 2002

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (New York and Boston, 1977), p. 99

Ansel Adams and Robert Turnage, Celebrating the American Earth: A Portfolio by Ansel Adams (Washington, D. C.: The Wilderness Society, 1980), unpaginated

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), pl. 74

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 367

Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.6

Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery, People’s Exhibition Hall, Ansel Adams: Photographer, February 1983; and traveling thereafter to: Beijing, National Museum of Art, March 1983; Tokyo, Odakyu Store Art Gallery, June 1983; Hong Kong Arts Centre, July – August 1983; San Diego, Museum of Photographic Arts, June – August 1984; Haifa, Museum of Modern Art, May – August 1987

San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Ansel Adams, a Legacy: Masterworks from the Friends of Photography Collection, March – June, 1997, and traveling thereafter to: Louisville, Kentucky, J. B. Speed Museum, September – November 1998; Japan, Nihombashi, Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, March, 1999; Japan, Ehime Prefecture Museum, June – July 1999; Japan, Toyama Prefecture, Tonami City Museum, July – August 1999; Japan, Hokkaido, Kushiro Art Museum, September – October 1999; Japan, Kawasaki City Museum, October – December 1999

Billings, Montana, Yellowstone Art Museum, Ansel Adams: a Legacy, October 2002 – January 2003 and traveling thereafter to: University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center, Ansel Adams: a Legacy, August 2005 – January 2006: Loretta and Ligonier, Pennsylvania, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, March – November 2006; Tucson Museum of Art, October 2009 – February 2010; Cartersville, Georgia, Booth Western Art Museum, September 2010 – March 2011; Missoula, Montana, Missoula Art Museum, October 2011 – April 2012; Helena, Montana, The Holter Museum of Art, January – April 2013; Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia, The Fralin Museum of Art, June – October 2013

Maroon Bells is widely known as a plate included in Ansel Adams’ Portfolio VI, published in 1974 in an edition of 110. While portfolio prints of this highly sought-after image have appeared at auction with some frequency, an example made outside of the portfolio edition, such as the present photograph, is rare. The photograph offered here is believed to be the first non-portfolio print to appear at auction.