Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984). Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, circa 1944. Gelatin ...

Description

Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, circa 1944
Gelatin silver print, printed 1973-1977
15-5/8 x 19-1/4 inches (39.7 x 48.9 cm) (image/sheet)
Signed in pencil, mount recto. Titled and dated in ink in photographer's stamp (BMFA 11), mount verso.

LITERATURE:
A. Adams & B. Newhall, This is the American Earth, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1960, p. 85;
B. Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Sierra Club, San Francisco,1963, pp. 88-89;
J. Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1985, p. 243;
A. Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 369;
P. Brooks, Ansel Adams, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1992, cover and frontispiece;
J. Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., 2001, pl. 89.


More information about Ansel Adams. See also: Adams, Ansel, Ansel Easton Adams Artist.

Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000.

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