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Ansel Adams
View of the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, 1937Vintage Silver Gelatin6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inThis vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil mount recto, with Adams' stamp (BMFA 2) mount verso. This incredibly rare print is the only known example of this image....This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil mount recto, with Adams' stamp (BMFA 2) mount verso. This incredibly rare print is the only known example of this image. From the prestigious Pilara Family Foundation. Exhibited at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco: "Collected" from May 2016 – January 2017.
This image features the Bay Bridge in 1937, the year following its construction and the same year that the Golden Gate Bridge was completed. This image resembles Alfred Stieglitz's iconic photograph "The Shelton, New York, Looking Northeast, 1927", a photograph that Adams may have seen while exhibiting at Stieglitz's gallery "An American Place" in 1936, the year prior to the present photograph.
Private Collection, United States
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 1993
M. Pflueger Collection, San Francisco
Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 2006
