Stack of Rails

Stack of Rails

Photograph

Ansel Adams

Maker
American, 1902–1984

Stack of Rails

ca. 1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 33.4 x 43.7 cm (13 1/8 x 17 3/16 in.)
Paper: 54.1 x 70.6 cm (21 5/16 x 27 13/16 in.)
Matted: 55.7 x 68 x 0.4 cm (21 15/16 x 26 3/4 x 3/16 in.)
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
2012.0815.0001
Inscriptions recto [on board] (ink): [artist signature]
verso [on board] (ink): PC8 \ (stamped/handwritten in black ink): POLAROID COLLECTION \ Photograph by ANSEL ADAMS \ Print No 8 \ Box No L-1 \ (stamped in blue ink): POLAROID LAND \ PHOTOGRAPH \ BY \ ANSEL ADAMS \ (blue ink): Nem [?] 1268 # "B" - \ Portrait, Stack of Rails \ (pencil): 62:501:25 38w \
[Crescent illustration board logo]: Crescent ILLUSTRATION BOARD \ Hot Press Surface \ No. 200 \ Heavy Weight \ A PRODUCT OF \ CRESCENT CARDBOARD \ COMPANY

recto [plexiglass] [printed label] (marker): 285 (ink): /11 \ [Swann Galleris logo]

verso [foam core board with matted print] (printed typed label): EPHO \ NOP \ 5QSDF \ Ansel Adams: Dennis Purcell \ and Gerry Sh \ (ink): 115N08649 \ 04/26/10 CD \ (typed): P 1 \ rcell, \ (marker): 3 \ (printed label): 5QSDF \ N08649 0419 \ (pencil): 62:501:25 \ Ansel Adams \ Portrait, Stack of Rails \ T-55 P/N \ c.1962 \ (printed label): Portrait, Stack of Rails, circa 1962 \ Polaroid Positive/Negative 4x5 Land Film Type 55 \ (marker): 3 \ (printed label): 5QSDF \ N08649 0419 \ (printed typed label): EPHO \ NOP \ 5QSDF \ Ansel Adams: Dennis Purcell \ and Gerry Sh
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