Lot 20
Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, c. 1937
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, c. 1937
Sale 1248 - Photographs, including an Important Collection of Ansel Adams
Nov 28, 2023
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Lot Description
Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, c. 1937
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, c. 1937
Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1974, signed in pencil on the mount; titled and dated 'c. 1944' in ink and 'Carmel' Credit stamp on the mount verso
image: 15 3/8 x 18 5/8in. (39 x 47.3cm.) mount: 22 x 28in. (55.9 x 71cm.)
Provenance:
From the Ansel Adams;
to an Important Private Collection, Pennsylvania, acquired 1974
Literature:
Adams & Newhall, This is the American Earth, Little, Brown and Co., 1960, p. 85;
Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Sierra Club, 1963, pp. 88-89;
Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Little, Brown and Co., 1985, p. 243;
Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., 1988, p. 369;
Brooks, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown & Co., 1992, cover and frontispiece;
Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., 2001, pl. 89;
Hammond, Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, Yale University Press, 2002, fig. 5.5, p. 120
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