Lot Essay
Other prints of this image reside in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Kaweah Gap, Sierra Nevada, California, 1932
Details
Ansel Adams (1902–1984)
Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Kaweah Gap, Sierra Nevada, California, 1932
gelatin silver print, mounted on original card, printed 1934
signed in pencil (mount, recto); credited on affixed photographer's label [BMFA label 3] and signed, titled and inscribed 'Best Wishes to Della & Herman/ Christmas 1934' in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (18.3 x 24.1 cm.)
mount: 14 x 18 in. (35.5 x 45.7 cm.)
Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Kaweah Gap, Sierra Nevada, California, 1932
gelatin silver print, mounted on original card, printed 1934
signed in pencil (mount, recto); credited on affixed photographer's label [BMFA label 3] and signed, titled and inscribed 'Best Wishes to Della & Herman/ Christmas 1934' in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (18.3 x 24.1 cm.)
mount: 14 x 18 in. (35.5 x 45.7 cm.)
Provenance
The artist;
gifted by the above to Della and Herman Hoss, Yosemite Valley, California, 1934;
acquired from the above by a private collector;
by descent to the present owner.
gifted by the above to Della and Herman Hoss, Yosemite Valley, California, 1934;
acquired from the above by a private collector;
by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Nancy Wynne Newhall, Ansel Adams: the Eloquent Light, Aperture, New York, 1980, pp. 168, 169.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, p. 32.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, New Haven: Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, p. 52.
Karen E. Haas et al., Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection, MFA Publications, Boston, 2005, p. 120.
Andrea Stillman et al., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 93.
Andrea Stillman et al., Ansel Adams in the National Parks: Photographs from America's Wild Places, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2010, p. 10.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, p. 32.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, New Haven: Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, p. 52.
Karen E. Haas et al., Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection, MFA Publications, Boston, 2005, p. 120.
Andrea Stillman et al., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 93.
Andrea Stillman et al., Ansel Adams in the National Parks: Photographs from America's Wild Places, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2010, p. 10.