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Ansel Adams

‘Rose and Driftwood,’ San Francisco, California

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

‘Rose and Driftwood,’ San Francisco, California


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s San Francisco studio stamp (BMFA 4), titled in red ink, on the reverse, framed

image: 8⅞ by 11¼ in. (22.5 by 28.6 cm.)

frame: 20¼ by 22 in. (51.4 by 55.9 cm.)

Executed in 1932, printed between 1950 and 1962.

The Collection of Margaret W. Weston, Carmel

Sotheby's New York, Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston, 25-26 April 2007, Sale 8387, Lot 2

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Carmel, Center for Photographic Art, Ansel Adams: From the Private Collection of Margaret Weston, July - September 1995

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963), p. 73

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 33

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 33

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, (Boston, 1985), pl. 7

James Alinder, ed., Light Years: The Friends of Photography, 1967-1987 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1987), p. 11

Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), unpaginated illustration

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 75

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 2002), p. 32

Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Replica Handbags s, Boston, 2005), pl. 19

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 87

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 67