Ansel Adams - Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago New York Wednesday, October 1, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Purchased from the photographer, 1952

  • Exhibited

    Photographs by Ansel Adams, The Art Institute of Chicago, 20 November 1951- 5 January 1952

  • Literature

    Adams, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, cover and p. 35
    Alinder and Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, pl. 2
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ansel Adams: The Early Years, pls. 6-7
    Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, pl. 1

  • Catalogue Essay

    Other prints of this image are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson.

64

Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park

1927
Gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1951.
8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2 cm)
Signed in pencil on the mount; titled, dated '1926' in an unidentified hand in ink and '131-24th Avenue San Francisco' credit stamp on the reverse of the mount; 'The Art Institute of Chicago' collection label affixed to the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $46,250

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Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago

New York Auction 1 October