Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona

Print Notes

Ansel’s portrait of O’Keeffe and Cox was made at the rim of Canyon de Chelly. “I was walking around with my Zeiss Contax,” he wrote, “and I observed O’Keeffe and Orville Cox in breezy conversation standing on a rock slope above me. They were engaged in a bit of banter. The moment was now.”

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Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
1937 | Printed 1981
Gelatin silver print
Image Size: 11 x 14 inches
Frame Size: tbd
Location: Miami ~ Unique ID 231

Provenance

Acquired through Doyle Auction House (Lot 146), 2017.

Literature

Liliane De Cock, ed., Ansel Adams, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 1972, pl. 42, illustrated; Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Boston, Massachusetts, 1985, p. 227, illustrated; James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Boston, Massachusetts, 1985, pl. 14, illustrated; Mary Street Alinder and Andrea G. Stillman, eds., Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Boston, Massachusetts, 1988, p. 99, illustrated; Andrea G. Stillman, ed., The Grand Canyon and the Southwest, Boston, Massachusetts, 2000, p. 37, illustrated; Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005, pl. 45, illustrated; Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007, cover and p. 157, illustrated; Susan Danly, Georgia O’Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity, New Haven, Connecticut, 2008, pp. 15 and 63, illustrated; Wanda M. Corn, Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern, New York, 2018, p. 127, illustrated