Live Auction 19148Ansel Adams and the American West: Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Lot 55

ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Church at Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1929-1930

Closed10 December 2019

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Church at Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1929-1930
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1977
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled, dated and variously annotated in ink in photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA Stamp 11], and with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 9 3/8 x 13 in. (23.8 x 33 cm.)
mount: 15 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (40.3 x 50.4 cm.)

Specialist note

'I had not seen a photograph of the Ranchos de Taos church and had no idea of its magnificent form before I first viewed it (but did not photograph it) in 1927. The front aspects of the church are moderately impressive….It is the rear elevation that defines this building as one of the great architectural monuments of America. It had been interpreted by numerous painters and photographers, and I could not resist the challenge' (Ansel Adams, as published in: Andrea Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 53).