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Ansel Adams

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico , 1941 (Executed)

Lot #47 | 2025-03-27 | Sotheby's, New York
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USD 500,000 - 700,000 (currency of sale)

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Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: N11753
Auction name: Photographs
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2025-03-27
End date: 2025-04-03
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: Photography
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
Dimensions: 14¾ by 18½ in.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters: 37.5
Width In Centimeters: 47
Height In Inches: 14.75
Width In Inches: 18.5
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Year notes: Executed in 1941.
Literature
Tom Maloney, ed., U.S. Camera 1943 (New York, 1942), pp. 88-89 Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 63 Robert Doty, ed., Photography in America (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974), pp. 130-31 Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 55 Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection (Birmingham, 1982), pl. 125 Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), cover and p. 41 James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 55 James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images , (Boston, 1985), pl. 32 Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 142 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), frontispiece Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House (Köln, 2000), p. 643 John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 96 Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 2002), p. 40 Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005), pl. 37 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 175 Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), fig. 3 and p. 109 Karen E. Haas, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection (Boston, 2011), pl. 8 Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 119 Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.15
Catalog summary
Ansel Adams 1902 - 1984 Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's label (BMFA 5), with typed title and date, on the reverse, framed, a Certificate of Authenticity, issued by The Ansel Adams Gallery, on the reverse image: 14¾ by 18½ in. (37.5 by 47 cm.) frame: 27½ by 30½ in. (69.9 by 77.5 cm.) Executed in 1941, printed circa 1942. Literature Tom Maloney, ed., U.S. Camera 1943 (New York, 1942), pp. 88-89 Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 63 Robert Doty, ed., Photography in America (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974), pp. 130-31 Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 55 Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection (Birmingham, 1982), pl. 125 Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), cover and p. 41 James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 55 James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images , (Boston, 1985), pl. 32 Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 142 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), frontispiece Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House (Köln, 2000), p. 643 John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 96 Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 2002), p. 40 Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005), pl. 37 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 175 Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), fig. 3 and p. 109 Karen E. Haas, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection (Boston, 2011), pl. 8 Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 119 Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.15
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