Lot 17
Ansel Adams(1902-1984)Autumn, Great Smokey Mountains National Park, Tennessee
4 October 2021, 14:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$12,750 inc. premium
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Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Autumn, Great Smokey Mountains National Park, Tennessee, 1948
Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1976, signed and inscribed 'To Peter Wensberg, Greetings!' in ink on the mount; titled, dated in ink and 'Carmel' credit stamp on the mount verso.
16 5/8 x 12 1/2in (42.2 x 31.7cm)
mount 28 x 22in (71.1 x 55.9cm)
Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1976, signed and inscribed 'To Peter Wensberg, Greetings!' in ink on the mount; titled, dated in ink and 'Carmel' credit stamp on the mount verso.
16 5/8 x 12 1/2in (42.2 x 31.7cm)
mount 28 x 22in (71.1 x 55.9cm)
Footnotes
Provenance
From the artist;
to Peter Wensberg, Executive Vice-President and Director of Technical and Industrial Photography, 1971-1980, Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA; and Chairman of the Board of Fellows, The Center for Creative Photography, Arizona, acquired 1983;
by bequest to the present owner
Literature
U. S. Camera, 1953, p. 222
Alinder and Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Little, Brown & Co., 1985, pl. 39
Stillman and Turnage (eds.), Ansel Adams: Our National Parks, Little, Brown & Co., 1992, p. 106
Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown & Co., 2007, p. 240
