Yosemite Before & After Ansel Adams

Posted on August 3, 2023 | No Comments

Predecessors & Students of Ansel Adams

CARLETON WATKINS
Half Dome from Glacier Point. c. 1867
8 1/8″ x 12″ Titled albumen print

ISAIAH W. TABER
The Lower Yosemite Fall (487 feet) and Mt. Starr King (5,080 feet),
Yosemite Valley, California. 1880s
9 5/8″ x 7 1/2″ Albumen print with credit, number, and title

H. C. TIBBITTS
The Fall Of The Monarch With Troop F, Sixth Cavalry, United States. 1899
16″ x 19 1/2″ Albumen print with credit, title, and date in negative

ARTHUR CLARENCE PILLSBURY
Vernal Falls, Yosemite Valley. 1920
8 1/2″ x 3 1/4″ Orotone with title and photographer’s label

JOHN SEXTON
White Branch, Merced River, Yosemite Valley, California. 1974, printed c. 1980
14 1/4″ x 17 3/4″ Signed & stamped gelatin silver print

ALAN ROSS
Half Dome, Little Yosemite from Washburn Point. 1977, printed later
9″ x 11 1/2″ Signed archival pigment print

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Half Dome, Sunlight On Merced River By Ansel Adams

Posted on August 2, 2023 | No Comments

ANSEL ADAMS
Half Dome, Sunlight on Merced River, Yosemite National Park. 1935
19 3/8″ x 15 1/4″ Rare vintage gelatin silver print
On early warm-toned matte paper and a single ply mount
Signed in pencil on lower right of mount recto

This fine and velvety print is undoubtedly one of the first 16″ x 20″ photographs ever made by Adams. The Center for Creative Photography which houses the Ansel Adams photographic archive has an unsigned 8″ x 10″ print of this image.

The scene prominently features Yosemite’s Half Dome peak between parting trees, as summer light reflects on a flowing Merced River.

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William Garnett — Four Sided Dune

Posted on July 26, 2023 | No Comments

WILLIAM GARNETT
Four Sided Sand Dune, Death Valley, California, Sand Dune #2, 1954
19 5/8″ x 15 1/2″ Signed & stamped gelatin silver print

Captured by air while piloting his own plane, William Garnett’s textural aerials received three Guggenheim fellowships for his groundbreaking photographic work.

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Ansel Adams: An Exhibition In Wine Country

Posted on July 21, 2023 | No Comments

featuring works from
Sonoma, Yosemite, Carmel-by-the-Sea, and the Desert SouthwestOpening Reception

Saturday, July 29, 1-5pm

Exhibition
through October 14, 2023

ANSEL ADAMS
Oak Tree, Rain, Sonoma County, California. 1960
9 1/2″ x 12 3/4″ Signed gelatin silver print

Scott Nichols Gallery is pleased to feature the photography of Ansel Adams as the de Young Fine Art Museum of San Francisco winds down their exhibition, Ansel Adams in Our Time, which is scheduled to close on August 6, 2023.

Ansel Adams (1902 – 1984) is arguably the best known photographer of our era.

Throughout his life, Adams called the bay area region of San Francisco, Yosemite, and Carmel-by-the-Sea home. Photographs spanning his long career as a photographer, including early vintage photographs, images of Yosemite National Park, the desert southwest, and the bay area will be available for viewing or purchase from the gallery throughout the course of the exhibition.

ANSEL ADAMS
Sheep and House, Mendocino Coast, California. c.1962
10 5/8″ x 10 3/4″ Signed gelatin silver print

Contact the gallery for inquiries, pricing, and availability.

Refreshments served during reception courtesy of Winery Sixteen 600.

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A Tropical Paradise

Posted on July 19, 2023 | No Comments

Hawaii by Willard Worden

4 1/4″ x 3″ Stamped gelatin silver contact print

4 1/4″ x 3″ Gelatin silver contact print

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Seeking Garrapata Beach, California

Posted on July 13, 2023 | No Comments

BRETT WESTON
Rock and Sand, Garrapata Beach, California. 1962, printed mid-1970s
16″ x 20″ Signed & dated gelatin silver print

CARA WESTON
Surf, Garrapata. 2008
16″ x 24″, other sizes available
Signed, dated & editioned gelatin silver print

MORLEY BAER
South Rock, Garrapata Beach. 1967
7 1/2″ x 9″ Signed & dated gelatin silver print

COLE WESTON
Surf and Headlands. 1958, printed 1980s
16″ x 19 7/8″ Signed & dated dye transfer print

ROLFE HORN
Looking North, Garrapata Beach, California. 2023
20″ x 30″ and 40″ x 60″ Signed & dated archival pigment print on baryta

CHIP HOOPER
Receding Tide, Garrapata Beach. 1996, printed 2000
18 1/4″ x 23″ Signed gelatin silver print

BRETT WESTON
Cracked Plastic, Garrapata. 1954, printed 1980s
24″ x 20″ Signed & editioned gelatin silver print
Edition of 25; other sizes available

See more:
Morley Baer
Chip Hooper
Rolfe Horn
Brett Weston
Cara Weston
Cole Weston

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Willie Nelson

Posted on July 12, 2023 | No Comments

We Love Willie!

J. JAMES JOINER
Willie’s Guitar (Willie Nelson).
13″ x 19″ Signed archival luster print

J. JAMES JOINER
Willie Nelson.
13″ x 19″ Signed archival luster print

ANONYMOUS
Willie Nelson. c. late 1960s to early 1970s
13 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ Inscribed “To Kathy. Love, Willie Nelson”