ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941

Details
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed c. 1969
signed in pencil (mount, recto); stamped photographer's Carmel credits [BMFA 7 & 8] with title in ink (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (39.4 x 49.4 cm.)
mount: 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by a private collector, New York, 1970;
Christie's, New York, October 31, 1988, lot 438;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest, New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1966, pl. 55.
Liliane De Cock (ed.), Ansel Adams, Morgan & Morgan, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 1972, pl. 63.
Robert M. Doty, Photography in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1974, pp. 130-131.
Martha A. Sandweiss (ed.), Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection, Birmingham, 1982, pl. 125.
James Alinder, Ansel Adams, 1902-1984, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984, p. 55.
Ansel Adams, Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1988, p. 142.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., 1989, cover, p. 40.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Little, Brown and Co., Tokyo, 1999, pl. 32.
Andrea Stillman, Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest, Little Brown & Co., Boston, 2000, frontispiece.
Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Taschen, Cologne, 2000, p. 643.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 96.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams, Divine Performance, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, p. 94, Fig. 4.10.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pl. 37.
Andrea Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 2007, p. 175.

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