Ansel Adams

mounted, signed by the photographer in pencil on the mount, signed, titled, and dedicated 'For Ruth and Pirkle' by him in ink and with his 'Box 455 Yosemite National Park California' credit stamp (BMFA 3) on the reverse, matted, circa 1936, printed before 1949 (Morgan & Morgan, pl. 25; Letters and Images, p. 85;  An American Place, pl. 29)

Gift of the photographer to Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch, late 1940s

This luminous print, on single-weight paper with a surface sheen, is mounted to gray board and is in generally excellent condition. In raking light, a 1 1/2-inch linear impression, not breaking the emulsion, is visible in the lower right quadrant. There is age-darkening at the mount's periphery. There are what appear to be three pinpoint ink droplets in the upper mount on the front, and there is light soiling on the mount on the front and back.
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The Ansel Adams photograph in this and the following lot are from the collects ion of the photographer Pirkle Jones (b. 1914).  Jones's long relationship with Adams began in 1946 when Jones enrolled in the inaugural photography course at the California School of Replica Handbags s in San Francisco.  He served as Adams's assistant from 1947 until 1953.  These photographs were acquired directly from Adams by Jones during this period.