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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Kaweah Gap, Sierra Nevada, California, 1932
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed c. 1980
signed and inscribed 'For Matthew! Celebrations June 11, 1983' in pencil (mount, recto); titled and dated in ink in photographer's Carmel credit stamp (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 1414 x 1858 in. (36.2 x 47.3 cm.)
mount: 22 x 2818 in. (55.9 x 71.4 cm.)
Provenance
Weston Gallery, Carmel, California;
Christie's, New York, April 6, 2017, lot 237;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Nancy Wynne Newhall, Ansel Adams: the Eloquent Light, Aperture, New York, 1980, pp. 168, 169.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, p. 32.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, New Haven: Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, p. 52.
Karen E. Haas et al., Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection, MFA Publications, Boston, 2005, p. 120.
Andrea Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 93.
Andrea Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams in the National Parks: Photographs from America's Wild Places, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2010, p. 10.
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