Lot Essay
The original owner of this charming, early portfolio ran the general store in Yosemite where she met Ansel Adams who gave her the portfolio as a token of their friendship.
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'Yosemite Valley, California: Photographs by Ansel Easton Adams'
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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
'Yosemite Valley, California: Photographs by Ansel Easton Adams'
San Francisco: Self-published, 1930. 15 gelatin silver prints; each signed in pencil (in the margin); image, each approximately 5 5/8 x 7¾in. (14.4 x 19.7cm.) or the reverse; sheet, each 12 x 10in. (30.4 x 25.4cm.); text inserts, numbered '6' in ink (on the colophon); large 4to folding case; number 6 of an edition of 50
'Yosemite Valley, California: Photographs by Ansel Easton Adams'
San Francisco: Self-published, 1930. 15 gelatin silver prints; each signed in pencil (in the margin); image, each approximately 5 5/8 x 7¾in. (14.4 x 19.7cm.) or the reverse; sheet, each 12 x 10in. (30.4 x 25.4cm.); text inserts, numbered '6' in ink (on the colophon); large 4to folding case; number 6 of an edition of 50
Provenance
From the artist;
by descent to the present owner
by descent to the present owner
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