Portfolio Two: The National Parks and Monuments; 15 Photographs by Ansel Adams

Name: ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Brand: Portfolio Two: The National Parks and Monuments; 15 Photographs by Ansel Adams
Price: 140000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 176,400

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Closed: 17 Apr 2025

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Portfolio Two: The National Parks and Monuments; 15 Photographs by Ansel Adams

Price Realised USD 176,400

Closed: 17 Apr 2025

Price Realised USD 176,400

Closed: 17 Apr 2025

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Portfolio Two: The National Parks and Monuments; 15 Photographs by Ansel Adams
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1950. Fifteen gelatin silver prints, mounted on board; each signed and numbered sequentially in pencil (mount, recto); each numbered '8' and sequentially numbered '1-15' in red crayon in portfolio credit limitation stamp (mount, verso); each image/sheet approximately 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.) or the reverse, each mount 17⁷⁄₈ x 14 in. (35.5 x 45.4 cm.); text inserts, numbered '8 / 100' in red crayon (colophon); number eight from the edition of 100; contained in the original folding portfolio case 18¹⁄₈ x 14¹⁄₈ (46 x 10.2 cm.)

From the artist to Douglas Whiteside, photographer and friend of the artist;
gifted from the above to the present owner.

Ansel Adams and John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1977, all plates illustrated.
John Szarkowski et al., Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1986, pls. 39, 44
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2007, pp. 172, 179, 190, 214, 217-218, 236-237, 240, 258.
Ansek Adams and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams At 100, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 2001, pls. 28, 76, 80.

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Lot Essay

The plates are as follows:
1. Noon Clouds, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1942
2. Forest, Early Morning, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, 1949
3. Dunes, Hazy Sun, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, 1941
4. White House Ruin, Morning, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1949
5. From Hurricane Hill, Olympic National Park, Washington, 1948
6. Moth and Stump, Interglacial Forest, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska, 1949
7. Sentinel Rock, Winter Dusk, Yosemite National Park, California, 1944
8. Afternoon Sun, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, 1943
9. In Joshua Tree National Monument, California, 1942
10. Rain, Beartrack Cove, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska, 1949
11. Dead tree, Sunset Crater National Monument, Arizona, 1947
12. Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Monument, California, 1942
13. Old Faithful Geyser, late evening, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1942
14. The Atlantic, Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park, Maine, 1949
15. Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, 1948