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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Saguaro Cactus, Arizona, 1946
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1948
signed and numbered '2' in pencil (mount, recto); with photographer’s portfolio and reproduction limitation stamp (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (mat backing)
image/sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 in. (23.4 x 17.7 cm.)
‌mount: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.5 cm.)
This is print number two from set sixty-five of the portfolio Portfolio One (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1948).
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.
Literature
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1998, pl. 2, n.p.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pl. 47, p. 81.
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 172.
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams In the National Parks: Photographs from America's Wild Places, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2010, p. 239, 306.
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