ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)

Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley, 1944

Details

ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley, 1944
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
signed in pencil (on the mount); title, date in ink and Carmel credit stamp (on the reverse of the mount)
image/sheet: 15½ x 19¼in. (39.3 x 48.8cm.)
mount: 22 x 28in. (56 x 71.2cm.)

Provenance

From the artist;
to George B. Hartzog, Jr.;
by bequest to the present owner

Literature

Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Sierra Club, 1963, pp. 88-89; Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, 1983, p. 102; Adams, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little Brown and Company, 1992, cover and frontispiece; Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, Little, Brown and Company, 2001, pl. 89; Stillman, ed. Ansel Adams in the National Parks, Little, Brown and Company, 2010, p. 109

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Lot Essay

George B. Hartzog, Jr. (1920-2008) was Director of the National Park Service during the 1960s and early 1970s. During his tenure Mr. Hartzog oversaw the largest expansion of the system -- 72 sites encompassing 2.7 million acres -- including recreation areas, seashores, river ways and historical monuments, such as Gateway National Recreation Area in New York City and Golden Gate National Recreation Area on San Francisco Bay.

Please see lot 8 for a mural version of the image.

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