Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
'The Golden Gate (Before the Bridge)'
mural-sized gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 5 and 6), titled in ink, on the reverse, framed
image: 18¾ by 27⅝ in. (47.6 by 70.2 cm.)
frame: 28¼ by 36½ in. (71.8 by 92.7 cm.)
Executed in 1932, printed in 1965.
Condition Report
Provenance
The photographer to Dick Erath, Willamette Valley wine pioneer, 1965
By descent to the present owner
Literature
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 23
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 114
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 11
James and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A San Francisco Heritage (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987), pl. 2
Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), unpaginated
Andrea G. Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: California (Boston, 1997), pp. 16-7
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 21
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 75