Ansel Adams

Snow-Covered Tree

Lot closes

April 3, 04:54 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Starting Bid

22,000 USD

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Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of David H. Arrington

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Snow-Covered Tree

gelatin silver print, signed 'Ansel E. Adams' in pencil in the margin, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse; accompanied by the original mount, inscribed 'To our dear Sara and Erskine with love, Ansel & V.' in ink

image: 7¾ by 6 in. (19.7 by 15.2 cm.)

frame: 23 by 19 in. (58.4 by 48.3 cm.)

Executed in 1930.

The photographer to Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sarah Bard Field Wood

By descent in family, 2005

Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco

Acquired from the above in 2006 with Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent by the present owner

'Sara and Erskine,' to whom this photograph is inscribed, are Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood. From 1935 until his death in 1944, Wood, an American novelist, civil liberties advocate and attorney, and his second wife, Sara Bard Field, a poet and suffragist, lived in Los Gatos, California. Their home, which they named 'The Cats,' played host to notable figures such as John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, Chief Joseph, Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, and Ansel Adams. Field and Wood both wrote poetry, and Albert M. Bender, friend and patron of Adams's projects, provided economic support for a book of their work in 1937.