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Ansel Adams

'Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park'

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October 23, 06:04 PM GMT

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50,000 - 70,000 USD

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45,000 USD

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

‘Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park'


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA I), with title and dates ‘1944’ and ‘1976’ in ink, on the reverse, framed, a Susan Spiritus Gallery, Costa Mesa, label on the reverse

image: 15½ by 19 in. (39.4 by 48.3 cm.)

frame: 22¼ by 28¼ in. (56.5 by 71.8 cm.)

Executed circa 1937, printed in 1976.

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light (San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1963), pp. 88-9

Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 71

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), cover

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 102

James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel, 1984), p. 34

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 243

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 46

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 369

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), pl. 51

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), unpaginated

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

John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide, Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1999), fig. 9.10-11

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (Boston, 2001), p. 89

Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 57

Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 123

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man (New York, 2012), p. 102

Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 191