A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks

Ansel Adams

Juniper Tree Detail, Sequoia National Park

Auction Closed

December 14, 10:16 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Juniper Tree Detail, Sequoia National Park

gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, with the 'Photograph by Ansel Adams' stamp, signed by Virginia Best Adams in pencil, and a Michael and Jeanne Adams collection stamp on the reverse, framed, circa 1927, probably printed in the 1930s; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2)

image: 9 1/2 by 7 1/8 in. (24.1 by 18.1 cm.)

frame: 19 1/4 by 15 1/4 in. (48.9 by 38.7 cm.)

Collection of Virginia Best Adams

By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s

Acquired from the above, 2006

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ansel Adams at 100, August 2001 - January 2002, and traveling thereafter to:

The Art Institute of Chicago, February - June 2002

London, Hayward Gallery, July - September 2002

Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, October 2002 - January 2003

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February - April 2003

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, July - November 2003

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 45 (this print)

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 106

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 6

Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 29

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 30

There are early prints in the collections of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Ansel Adams archive at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.