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Ansel Adams

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico

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April 3, 04:45 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

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450,000 USD

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's label (BMFA 5), with typed title and date, on the reverse, framed, a Certificate of Authenticity, issued by The Ansel Adams Gallery, on the reverse

image: 14¾ by 18½ in. (37.5 by 47 cm.)

frame: 27½ by 30½ in. (69.9 by 77.5 cm.)

Executed in 1941, printed circa 1942.

Tom Maloney, ed., U.S. Camera 1943 (New York, 1942), pp. 88-89

Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 63

Robert Doty, ed., Photography in America (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974), pp. 130-31

Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 55

Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection (Birmingham, 1982), pl. 125

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), cover and p. 41

James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 55

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, (Boston, 1985), pl. 32

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 142

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), frontispiece

Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House (Köln, 2000), p. 643

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 96

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 2002), p. 40

Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005), pl. 37

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

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), fig. 3 and p. 109

Karen E. Haas, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection (Boston, 2011), pl. 8

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 119 

Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.15

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