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Property from the Collection of David H. Arrington

Ansel Adams

'Church, Cañoncito, New Mexico' (Gate and Cross)

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Property from the Collection of David H. Arrington

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'Church, Cañoncito, New Mexico' (Gate and Cross)


mural-sized gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, signed and titled in red ink on the reverse, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams

image: 30¾ by 39⅛ in. (78.1 by 99.4 cm.)

frame: 45½ by 53½ in. (115.6 by 135.9 cm.)

Executed in 1961, probably printed circa 1965.

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2007

Fresno, First Federal Savings and Loan, 1982

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, March – May 1988

Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, 1989

Santa Fe, The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, May – September 2008, and traveling thereafter to The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D. C.

Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection, August 2015 – January 2016

Ansel Adams and Lawrence Clark Powell, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 65