In Yosemite Valley (a.k.a. Cottonwood Trunks)

Print Notes

Featured in the An American Place 1936 exhibit and may be the actual print that was in the Stieglitz exhibit.

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Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
1932 | Printed likely before 1935
Vintage gelatin silver print signed "Ansel E. Adams' and titled in pencil and with typed label on the mount, titled in pencil and with the photographer's San Francisco studio label (BMFA Label 3) on the back.
Image Size: 9 1/2 x 7 inches
Frame Size: 22 7/8 x 18 3/4 inches
Location: AAP ~ Unique ID 447

Condition Report

When examined under ultraviolet light, this print does not appear to fluoresce. Markings throughout and edges of the mount worn.

Provenance

Weston Gallery to private collection to Christie’s New York, 5 April 2000, Sale 9330, Lot 29 to Weston Gallery, Carmel-by-the-Sea, 2006, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent purchased through Sotheby's at A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks (Lot 72).

Literature

Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (New York, 2004), p. 86; Andrea Gray, Ansel Adams: An American Place, 1936 (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1982) frontispiece and pl. 11; Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (New York, 2007), p. 81

Exhibition History

Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection, August 2015 – January 2016