Winter, Yosemite Valley (a.k.a. Trees in Snow)

Print Notes

This print was part of Ansel Adams' first solo exhibition at the Delphic Studio in 1933 in New York. The record list sent by Ansel Adams to the gallery is listing a print numbered with the same number 18 and titled as on the back of the mount. The letters between Alma Reed, Director of the Delphic Studio and Ansel Adams highlight that every print was mounted and titled by Ansel Adams. This specific print was one of the first ones sold at the exhibition.

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Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
Vintage gelatin silver print signed in pencil on the mount, on the reverse, titled and numbered '18' in pencil and the photographer's San Francisco label 3 (used from 1930-1935).
Image: 72 1/2 x 96 inches
Frame: 6 x 8 feet
Location: AAP ~ Unique ID 48

Condition Report

Excellent; minor surface bump far right.

Provenance

Delphic Studio, New York to a private New York Collector; to Sotheby's New York Photographs, April 23,1994 Lot 143; acquired by Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich; purchased at Sotheby's Paris "Modernism: Photographs from a Distinguished Private Collection," November 9, 2018.

Literature

American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe [Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, new York, August 17, 2013-January 26, 2014], 1 vol.; New York: the Museum of Modern Art, 2013; New York: An American Place "William Einstein and Ansel Adams," October 1, 1935-November 1, 1936; New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Thirty Photographers: A Selection from the Museum's Collection" April 12, 1969-June 1, 1969; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz," May 18, 1978-July 16,1978.

Exhibition History

Delphic Studio, New York, 1933