ANSEL ADAMS

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ANSEL ADAMS

Portfolio IV, What Majestic World (1940-63)

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963. 15 gelatin silver prints. Each signed in ink on the mount; portfolio label and numbered in red ink on the reverse of the mount. Each contained in paper folder with printed roman numerals and excerpts from the writings and poems by Russell Harrison Varian and John O. Varian. Each approximately 9 x 11½in. or the reverse. Numbered in red ink on the colophon with list of plates and introduction by Dorothy Varian. Numbered 93 from the edition of 260 (250 available for sale). Gray linen portfolio case with gilt lettering.
Provenance
Ex-collection, Irving W. Robbins, Jr.
See catalogue note for lot 83.

Lot Essay

The images include: Teklanika River, Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska, 1947; Sequoia Roots, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1950; Leaf, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska, 1948; Dunes, Oceano, California, 1963; Cathedral Peak and Lake, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1960; Vernal Fall, Yosemite Valley, California, c. 1948; Clearing Storm, Sonoma County Hills, California, 1962; Castle Rock, Summit Road Above Saratoga, California, 1963; Northern California Coast Redwoods, c. 1960; Orchard, Early Spring, Near Stanford University, California, c. 1940; Siesta Lake, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1958; Storm Surf, Timber Cove, California, c. 1960; Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, California, 1941; and Sierra Nevada, Winter Evening, from the Owens Valley, California, 1962.