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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Juniper Tree Detail, Sequoia National Park, c.1927
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, printed probably 1930s
signed by Virginia Best Adams in pencil within 'Photograph by Ansel Adams' stamp, with Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp (mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 912 x 7 in. (24.1 x 17.8 cm.)
Provenance
The Artist to Virginia Best Adams;
by descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980;
Sotheby's, New York, A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks, December 14, 2020, lot 94;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1979, pl. 106.
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1985, pl. 6.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 45.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 2007, p. 30.
Exhibited
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ansel Adams at 100, August 2001 - January 2002.
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