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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California, 1944
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1973-1977
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled and dated in ink in photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA stamp 11] (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 14 1/2 x 19 1/4 in. (36.8 x 48.8 cm.)
‌mount: 18 5/8 x 23 1/8 in. (47.3 x 58.7 cm.)
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, March 30, 2009, lot 19;
‌acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This Is The American Earth, Little, Brown & Co., New York, 1960, frontispiece.
Ansel Adams, Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1988, p. 275.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown & Co., 1989, p. 163.
Ansel Adams, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1992, pl. 99.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Little, Brown & Co., Tokyo, 1999, pl. 38.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, Little, Brown & Company/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001, pl. 85. Andrea Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown & Co., London, 2007, p. 245.
Andrea Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown & Co., London, 2012, p. 128.
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