Ansel Adams 'Moonrise' Coming To NYC Auction on December 8, 2009

<table width="90%" align="CENTER"><tbody><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Batang, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="돋움, dotum, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 17px;"><br></span></font><div id="bbs_contents" class="bbs_contents " style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 18px; position: relative; word-wrap: normal; word-break: normal; "><div class="bbs_contents_inbox" style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; "><div id="user_contents" name="user_contents" style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; "><table class="protectTable" style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; width: 1014px; "><tbody><tr style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; "><td style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; "><p style="text-align: center; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: normal; word-break: normal; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: normal; word-break: normal; "></p><center><img src="https://img1.daumcdn.net/relay/cafe/original/?fname=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.afterimagegallery.com%2FClrlineN.gif" width="654" height="2"></center><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(25, 61, 169); font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; font-weight: bold; ">                                                                Featured Print</span><br><br><p style="text-align: center; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; word-wrap: normal; word-break: normal; text-align: center; "><img src="https://t1.daumcdn.net/cfile/cafe/137DD9014B17381050" class="tx-daum-image" hspace="1" vspace="1" border="0" actualwidth="991" width="950" style="clear: none; float: none; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; word-wrap: normal; word-break: normal; "></p><center><br></center><center><b><font size="+1"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#193DA9">Ansel Adams 1902-1984</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#193DA9"><br>Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#193DA9"><br></font><i><br></i><br></center><br><table width="90%" align="CENTER" style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; "><tbody><tr style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; "><td style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: normal; word-break: normal; "><b>NEW YORK </b><b>- </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; ">Ansel Adams' riveting Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico is perhaps the best known and most sought after photograph in the field of fine-art photography. An early print of an iconic Ansel Adams photograph is going up for auction in New York City for an estimated $350,000 to $450,000.</span></span></p><p class="storyIntro"><span class="storyDateline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><br>The Dec. 8 sale of 1948's "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" is at Swann Auction Galleries.<br><br>The print is signed and inscribed to Valentino Sarra, a friend of Adams' and a poster designer for the old Works Progress Administration. It shows a nighttime moon over a cloud-fringed mountain range with a graveyard in the foreground.<br><br>It was made in a range of subtle grays, and the auction house says it's one of only 10 believed to carry such a delicate tonal quality. Three are in museum collections.<br><br>Adams experimented with printing, often producing the same image in lighter and darker tones.</span></span></span></p><div style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; "><br></div><div style="font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; "><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></span></span></font></span></font></td></tr></tbody></table>