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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Boards and Thistles, San Francisco, 1932
gelatin silver print, mounted on card
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled by Virginia Adams, the photographer's widow, in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 918 x 612 in. (23.2 x 16.5 cm.)
mount: 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm.)
Provenance
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 1997;
Private Collection;
Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport;
acquired directly from the above by the present owner, 2012.
Literature
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1977, p. 113.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown, & Co., Boston, 1983, p. 28.
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman (eds.), Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown, & Co., Boston, 1988, p. 65.
Andrea Gray Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown, & Co., New York, 2007, p. 63.
Exhibited
Gainesville, Harn Museum of Art, Ansel Adams: Visualizing the American Landscape, May 14 - August 22, 2004.
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