128
Ansel Adams
Golden Gate Headlands from Lincoln Park, San Francisco
- Estimate
- $15,000 - 20,000
$45,360
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print, likely printed 1973-77.
circa 1950
15 1/4 x 18 3/8 in. (38.7 x 46.7 cm)
Signed in pencil on the mount; signed and inscribed 'The West of which I speak is but another name for the wild . . .' in ink, Carmel credit stamp (BMFA stamp 11), and titled and dated in an unidentified hand in ink, all on the reverse of the mount.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The quote inscribed by Adams on the reverse of this print comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Walking. The full context of the quote is as follows: 'The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World.'
Provenance