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Provenance

The Witkin Gallery, New York Acquired from the above in 1972 by the present owner

Literature

Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This Is the American Earth , San Francisco 1960, pp. ii-iii Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 , San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution 1963, unpaginated Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams , Hastings-on-Hudson 1972, pl. 77 Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light , Boston, 1979, pl. 99 Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs , Boston 1983, p. 162 Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography , Boston 1985, p. 262 James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images , Boston 1985, pl. 38 Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 , Boston 1988, p. 275 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness , Boston 1990, pl. 25 John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography , Boston 1992, fig. 6.12 Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend , San Francisco: The Friends of Photography 1993, p. 66 John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2001, pl. 85 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs , Boston 2007, p. 245 Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities , Boston 2008, p. 115 Andrea Gray Stillman , Looking at Ansel Adams , Boston 2012, p. 128 Jeff Putman & Genny Smith, eds., Deepest Valley: Guide to Owens Valley , Bakersfield 2014, cover and frontispiece Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams , New Haven 2020, fig. 6.4

Catalog summary

Ansel Adams 1902 - 1984 ‘Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine’ gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 & 8), with title in ink, on the reverse, framed image: 14 ⅝ by 19 ½ in. (37.1 by 49.5 cm.) Executed in 1944, printed no later than 1972. Provenance The Witkin Gallery, New York Acquired from the above in 1972 by the present owner Literature Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This Is the American Earth , San Francisco 1960, pp. ii-iii Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 , San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution 1963, unpaginated Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams , Hastings-on-Hudson 1972, pl. 77 Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light , Boston, 1979, pl. 99 Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs , Boston 1983, p. 162 Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography , Boston 1985, p. 262 James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images , Boston 1985, pl. 38 Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 , Boston 1988, p. 275 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness , Boston 1990, pl. 25 John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography , Boston 1992, fig. 6.12 Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend , San Francisco: The Friends of Photography 1993, p. 66 John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2001, pl. 85 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs , Boston 2007, p. 245 Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities , Boston 2008, p. 115 Andrea Gray Stillman , Looking at Ansel Adams , Boston 2012, p. 128 Jeff Putman & Genny Smith, eds., Deepest Valley: Guide to Owens Valley , Bakersfield 2014, cover and frontispiece Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams , New Haven 2020, fig. 6.4