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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Ice on Ellery Lake, Sierra Nevada, California (from Yosemite and the Range of Light), c. 1959
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1979

signed and numbered ‘11/50' in pencil (mount, recto); credited, titled and dated with edition information in ink on affixed New York Graphic Society Yosemite and the Range of Light label (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 13 x 18 ¾ in. (33 x 47.6 cm.)
mount: 22 x 28 in. (55.8 x 71.1 cm.)
This work is number eleven from an edition of fifty from a set of five photographs especially printed and signed by the artist as part of the deluxe edition of Yosemite and the Range of Light, published by New York Graphic Society in September, 1979.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by a private west coast collector;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Ansel Adams and Paul Brooks, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1979, pl. 22, p. 44.
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Iwasaki Bijustu-Sha Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 1999, pl. 55.
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2007, p. 344.
Ansel Adams and John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1977, Section 4, pl. 2.
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