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Selected Images from Portfolio IV
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PHOTOGRAPHS
ARTIST
Ansel Adams
Size
Varying sizes from 7 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (18.4 x 21.6 cm) to 10 x 12 5/8 in. (25.4 x 32.1 cm)
Description
PROPERTY OF SEMPERVIRENS FUND SOLD TO BENEFIT CASTLE ROCK STATE PARK, CALIFORNIA
Medium
Eight gelatin silver prints from Portfolio Four: What Majestic Word. In Memory of Russell Varian, printed 1963.
Signature
Each signed in ink on the mount; numbered '235' in ink on the portfolio label affixed to the reverse of the mount. Number 235 from an edition of 260.
Provenance
Gift from the photographer to Dorothy Varian, wife of Russell Varian
Bequeathed to Sempervirens Fund to benefit Castle Rock State Park, California
Literature
Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, IV, various plates (for all)
Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, pp. 328, 344, 390, 391
Alinder and Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, pls. 23, 28, 55
Each citation for various prints