Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
'Aspens, Northern New Mexico'
gelatin silver print, mounted, singed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title in ink on the reverse
image: 19½ by 15⅛ in. (49.5 by 38.4 cm.)
Executed in 1958, probably printed between 1973 and 1977.
Condition Report
Provenance
Acquired directly from the photographer in the 1980s by the present owner
Literature
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963), p. 19
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 95
Ansel Adams, The Camera (Boston, 1980), cover and fig. 11-1
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 63
James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 20
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 177
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 63
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), front leaf
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 9.1
Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 7
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 49
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), spine and p. 373
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 200