Live Auction 2120Photographs By Ansel Adams From A California Collection
ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Lot 1100

ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)

Winter Sunrise From Lone Pine, Sierra Nevada, 1944

Closed11 April 2008

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Winter Sunrise From Lone Pine, Sierra Nevada, 1944
gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
signed in ink (on the mount); title in ink and 'Carmel' credit stamp (on the reverse of the mount)
14 3/8 x 19 1/8in. (36.5 x 49cm.)

Specialist note

The Alabama Hills (the left hand hill) in reality had the huge, whitewashed initials 'LP' [Lone Pine] stencilled on them. Adams considered this 'a hideous and insulting scar on one of the great vistas of our land' and ruthlessly removed what he could from the negative, spotting out any remaining traces in the final print.