Moonrise Hernandez, NM
Type:Print
Year:1944
Size:11.00" x 15.00"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Unsigned
Ansel Easton Adams ART FOR SALE
1902 San Francisco, California - 1984 Carmel, California. Known for: Western landscape photography.
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a solitary child; at the age of twelve, he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a solitary child; at the age of twelve, he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his frustrating and erratic youth. Moreover, the careful training and exacting craft required of a musician profoundly informed his visual artistry, as well as his influential writings and teachings on photography. Always a lover of nature, Adams life... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a solitary child; at the age of twelve, he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his frustrating and erratic youth. Moreover, the careful training and exacting craft required of a musician profoundly informed his visual artistry, as well as his influential writings and teachings on photography. Always a lover of nature, Adams life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth gesture" of the Yosemite Sierra; he spent substa... Read full biography
Ansel Easton Adams - Art for Sale (3 available)
'Aspens, Northern New Mexico' (Horizontal)
Type:Photograph
Year:1958
Size:40.00" x 52.00"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Gelatin silver mural print. Flush-mounted on board, matted and framed. Gifted directly from the artist to Sigurd F. Olson, 1967; donated by the above to Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, Northland College, June 1981.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Type:Photograph
Year:c. 1941
Size:17.88" x 23.13"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Signed
Notes:
SOLD for $156,000 at the Lone Star Art Auction in Dallas, Texas. Now accepting Ansel Adams consignments for our upcoming 2026 auction. For more information, visit the auction website at www.lonestarartauction.com, call the auction office at (469) 608-7600, or click the contact link below.