Art
Live Auction Item! "Rear of Church, Cordova, New Mexico" by Ansel Adams
- Item Number
- 262
- Estimated Value
- 11250 USD
Item Description
Own a signed Ansel Adams original! Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is one of the most celebrated photographers of all time. His images of the American landscape, and especially those of the American West, are familiar to millions. Born and raised in San Francisco, Adams studied music as a youth with the hope of becoming a concert pianist. At age 14, while on a family vacation, he took his first snapshots of Yosemite National Park. From that time on, Adams was captivated by the idea of recording nature on film. While in his twenties, he abandoned his musical ambitions for a career in photography, working as a portrait and commercial photographer. By the 1930s he began to achieve success for his visionary yet highly detailed photographs of western landscapes, especially those taken in Yosemite National Park. In 1941 Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes asked Adams to take photographs of the American West for a series of murals to be installed in the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC. The murals were never completed, but 226 of Adams¿s signed original prints were later added to the National Archives holdings and can be found among the records of the National Park Service.
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"Rear of Church, Cordova, New Mexico" by Ansel Adams, negative shot in 1938, printed in December 1978: silver gelatin photographic print, 15-5/8" high x 19-1/2" wide (print). This black-and-white photograph depicts two blank walls of an adobe building, with a half-height buttress that slopes directly to the ground, and thus is triangular in section. There are two more adobe buildings, each with one door and one window, in the middle distance at left. This photograph is dry mounted on a rag mat board measuring 22" x 28". The board is signed "Ansel Adams" in pencil. The title and date are handwritten in black ink. No defects of condition are apparent in the photograph or frame. The framing was done in 1993 by Archival Art Services.
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Donated By:
Pat Petrou
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