ID 1134205
Lot 148 | ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, 1948
gelatin silver print, printed 1973 -1977
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled and dated in photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA 11], with Ansel Adams gallery stamp in ink (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection label (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 19 ¼ x 15 3⁄8 in. (48.9 x 39.1 cm.)
mount: 28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.8 cm.)
Provenance
Jackson Fine Arts, Atlanta;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1994.
Literature
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 201.
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1998, I, pl. 9.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 275.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams In The National Parks, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2010, p. 107.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2012, p. 222.
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