Live Auction 19148Ansel Adams and the American West: Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Lot 18

ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Yosemite Valley, Thunderstorm, 1949

Closed10 December 2019

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USD 32,500

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Yosemite Valley, Thunderstorm, 1949
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed probably 1950-1962
signed in pencil (mount, recto); photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA Stamp 4], and with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 10 ¼ x 13 3/8 in. (26.3 x 34 cm.)
mount: 14 x 18 in. (35.6 x 45.6 cm.)

Specialist note

'The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless, yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us' (Ansel Adams, My Camera in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1949).