Portfolio III: Yosemite Valley

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Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Portfolio III: Yosemite Valley
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1960. 16 gelatin silver prints mounted on board; each signed in ink and sequentially numbered '1-16' in pencil (mount, recto); each numbered ‘153’, and sequentially numbered '1-16' in red ink in Portfolio copyright credit stamp (mount, verso); varying image sizes from 7 1/8 x 6 5/8 in. (18.2 x 16.9 cm.) to 11 3/8 x 7 ¾ in. (29 x 19.7 cm.), each mount 18 x 14 in. (45.8 x 35.6 cm.); numbered '153' from the edition of 200 (colophon); contained in the original gilt-lettered green cloth portfolio with flaps and ties

Lot Essay

1. Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, c. 1927
2. Merced River, Cliffs of Cathedral Rocks, Autumn, 1939
3. Lower Yosemite Fall, c. 1946
4. Trees and Snow, 1933
5. Branches in Snow, c. 1932
6. El Capitan, Sunrise, 1956
7. Tenaya Creek, Spring Rain, 1959
8. Water and Foam, c. 1960
9. Winter Storm, 1940
10. Dogwood Blossoms, 1938
11. Grass and Pool, c. 1935
12. Nevada Fall, Rainbow, c. 1947
13. Rushing Water, Merced River, c. 1955
14. Bridalveil Fall, c. 1952
15. Trees and Cliffs, 1954
16. Half Dome, Thunder Cloud, c. 1956

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