Details
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Grasses in Shallow Pool, Sierra Nevada, c. 1935
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed probably 1940–1953
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled in photographer's 'PHOTOGRAPH BY ANSEL ADAMS' label [BMFA label 5] (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 7 1/4 x 9 1/8 in. (18.4 x 23.1 cm.)
mount: 14 x 18 in. (35.7 x 45.7 cm.)
Provenance
Paul Hertzmann Inc., San Francisco;
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco;
acquired from the above by a private collector, 1998;
Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015.Literature
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams The Eloquent Light, Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1963, p. 167.
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1998, III, pl. 11.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 12.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, frontispiece.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 112.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Looking at Ansel Adams The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2012, p. 84.Exhibited
Gainesville, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Ansel Adams Visualizing the American Landscape, May 18 - August 22, 2004.
Details
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Grasses in Shallow Pool, Sierra Nevada, c. 1935
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed probably 1940–1953
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled in photographer's 'PHOTOGRAPH BY ANSEL ADAMS' label [BMFA label 5] (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 7 1/4 x 9 1/8 in. (18.4 x 23.1 cm.)
mount: 14 x 18 in. (35.7 x 45.7 cm.)
Provenance
Paul Hertzmann Inc., San Francisco;
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco;
acquired from the above by a private collector, 1998;
Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015.Literature
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams The Eloquent Light, Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1963, p. 167.
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1998, III, pl. 11.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 12.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, frontispiece.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 112.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Looking at Ansel Adams The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2012, p. 84.Exhibited
Gainesville, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Ansel Adams Visualizing the American Landscape, May 18 - August 22, 2004.
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