

4
Ansel Adams
Burnt Stump and New Grass, Sierra Nevada, California
- Estimate
- $4,000 - 6,000
$9,375
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1936.
1935
9 3/8 x 6 1/8 in. (23.8 x 15.6 cm)
Signed in pencil on the mount; 'A Photograph by Ansel Adams' label and 'The Art Institute of Chicago' collection labels affixed to the reverse of the mount.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
This work was one of several specially printed by Adams for a show with art dealer Katharine Kuh. Kuh later became a curator at the Art Institute, and was among the first to donate photographs to the museum’s collections.
Provenance