Texas oilman's Ansel Adams photo gets $988,000 at auction A West Texas oilman’s mural-sized print of an Ansel Adams photo has sold for nearly $1 million at auctionDALLAS -- A West Texas oilman's mural-sized print of an Ansel Adams photo has sold for nearly $1 million at an auction. Sotheby's New York, the auction house, said Tuesday that “The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming” sold for $988,000, a record price for Adams at auction. The photo was among 115 works by Adams, including single prints and portfolios, that sold at auction Monday for $6.4 million, Sotheby’s said. Arrington said in a video posted on the auction house's website that he's collected 650 of Adams' photographs, and that it was time to let go of some. ——This story has been corrected to show that 115 works were sold, not 119.

Source: ABC News December 16, 2020 22:12 UTC