Ansel Adams
American · 1902–1984 · Printmaker, Photographer
Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an… (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine CaliforniaPhillips · $412,500≈ £327,485≈ €364,110Sign up to see
Moonrise, Hernandez, New MexicoPhillips · $381,000≈ £305,240≈ €349,509Sign up to see
The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, WyomingPhillips · $289,800≈ £213,104≈ €250,649Sign up to see
Ansel Adams’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
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- Fresh Snow, Yosemite Valley, California, circa 1947Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $10,000–15,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $6,000–8,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $12,000–18,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $50,000–70,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $1,500–2,500
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $10,000–15,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $15,000–20,000
- Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $3,000–5,000
- El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, c. 1935Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $2,000–3,000
- Yosemite Valley, Inspiration Point, c. 1935Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $1,000–1,500
Also offered, result not published (6)
Lots by Ansel Adams that were offered at auction where the house did not publish whether they sold. Not counted in any statistics.
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Ansel Adams signature
245 catalogued lots by Ansel Adams record a signature line. The most common placement is lower right (80% of lots that state a placement). Most often: signed.
Placement
Form
Signed "Ansel Adams" lower right of mount; titled, stamped with the Carmel credit stamp (BMFA stamp 11) and dated on the reverse
— Clearing Winter Storm, Phillips, May 14, 2025Title inscribed, signed and dated ‘Carmel 6.28.77’ and inscribed <i>for Karen </i> on artist’s blindstamp applied verso; signed to the mount
— Aspens, Northern New Mexico 1958, Art+Object, Aug 10, 2017Signed "AR" in pencil by the printer
— Moon and Half Dome', Yosemite National Park, California 1960, OstLicht Photo Auction, Nov 18, 2023
About Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.
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In museum collections
Wikimedia Commons · Public domainThe Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942
Wikimedia Commons · Public domainMonolith, the Face of Half Dome, 1927
Wikimedia Commons · Public domainEvening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park, 1942
National Archives at College Park · Public domain
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