Ansel Adams photo sells for $720,000 in NYC
Iconic American photographer Ansel Adams is having quite a moment at auctions this fall. After Jackson Hole Art Auction sold a Wyoming image once owned by Elton John for $312,000 in September, Sotheby’s presented an entire sale dedicated to the photographer in New York City in October. The top lot was Aspens, Northern New Mexico (Vertical), a dramatic and moody shot showing a cluster of aspens. With a high estimate of $250,000, the image, likely printed in the 1970s, sold for $720,000. Another image, Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, sold for $384,000, well over the $200,000 high estimate. Adams has performed well at auctions in the past, but a handful of sales of this magnitude within several weeks of each other is remarkable.+++
New Cory Hamilton wood carvings go quick
Wood carver Cory Hamilton has been busy this summer and fall with several large works, including a handful of major commissions. This one, Pride of Mexico, done in pine and ribbon wood, was recently finished for Top Gun actor Val Kilmer. The actor has a pueblo-style home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Kilmer is not the first celebrity to acquire one of Hamilton’s pieces: other works have gone to Korn singer Jonathan Davis, Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus, Aquaman star Jason Momoa and country singer Granger Smith, among others.See more of his work at www.coryhamiltondesign.com. —
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