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    Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984). Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California, 1944. Gelatin silver, prin...

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    • Photographs, Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984). Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California, 1944. Gelatin silver, prin...
    • Photographs, Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984). Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California, 1944. Gelatin silver, prin...
    • Photographs, Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984). Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California, 1944. Gelatin silver, prin...
    Photographs, Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984). Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California, 1944. Gelatin silver, prin... Photographs, Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984). Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California, 1944. Gelatin silver, prin... Photographs, Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984). Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California, 1944. Gelatin silver, prin... View More >
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    Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)
    Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California, 1944
    Gelatin silver, printed later
    15 x 18-3/4 inches (38.1 x 47.6 cm)
    Signed in ink mount recto; titled in ink and with the photographer's Carmel studio stamp mount verso.

    LITERATURE:
    Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, 1983, p. 66;
    James Alinder, ed., Ansel Adams: 1902-1984, Friends of Photography, Untitled 37, 1984, p. 16;
    Ansel Adams, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown and Company, 1992, pl. 46;
    John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, Little, Brown and Company, 2001, pl. 97;
    Andrea Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, 2007, p. 261;
    Andrea Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Company, 2012, p. 158.

    PROVENANCE:
    Ferdinand Roten Galleries, Baltimore, Maryland;
    Private collection.

    More information about Ansel Adams, also known as Adams, Ansel, Adams, Ansel, Ansel Adams, Ansel Easton Adams.

    Condition Report*: Dry mounted, matted, and framed under glass to 23 x 29 inches; one tiny abrasion near the upper right edge, otherwise, this print appears to be in excellent condition; one spot of light foxing to the mount at the lower right corner.
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    Auction Dates
    April, 2016
    17th Sunday
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