Ansel Adams "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park" sold for $722,500 to Alinder Gallery

The Alinder Gallery, based in Gualala, California, purchased Ansel Adams’ Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, the top lot at Sotheby’s June 21 and 22 sale of the Polaroid Collection. The work sold for $722,500, above $500,000 high estimate. Overall the sale totaled $12.5 million with 88.8 percent of lots finding buyers. My earlier coverage of the sale is here.

The gallery, which specializes in Ansel Adams has a motto displayed on the landing page of its website:  “Better Art. Better Life.”

Adams took the photo of the misty mountainous landscape in 1938. The mural-sized print from the Polaroid Collection dates from the 1950s or 1960s and was printed four-feet wide and hung in a Polaroid office.