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This March 14, 2014 photo shows a photo exhibit entitled, "In Focus: Ansel Adams" at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Toward the end of his life, photographer Ansel Adams pored over thousands of negatives he'd carefully kept since his teens and set aside 70 that he considered his best works of art. He offered to sell sets of 25, with strings attached: Adams would select 10 and let buyers choose the other 15; the images printed by Adams himself could never be resold, only left to a museum. The few dozen who made the cut included the late Leonard and Marjorie Vernon, whose collection was given to the J. Paul Getty Museum and is the centerpiece of "In Focus: Ansel Adams." (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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This March 14, 2014 photo shows a photo exhibit entitled, "In Focus: Ansel Adams" at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Toward the end of his life, photographer Ansel Adams pored over thousands of negatives he'd carefully kept since his teens and set aside 70 that he considered his best works of art. He offered to sell sets of 25, with strings attached: Adams would select 10 and let buyers choose the other 15; the images printed by Adams himself could never be resold, only left to a museum. The few dozen who made the cut included the late Leonard and Marjorie Vernon, whose collection was given to the J. Paul Getty Museum and is the centerpiece of "In Focus: Ansel Adams." (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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This March 14, 2014 photo shows Karen Hellman, Assistant Curator Department of Photographs examining a photo exhibit entitled, "In Focus: Ansel Adams" at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Toward the end of his life, photographer Ansel Adams pored over thousands of negatives he'd carefully kept since his teens and set aside 70 that he considered his best works of art. He offered to sell sets of 25 _ with strings attached: Adams would select 10 and let buyers choose the other 15; the images printed by Adams himself could never be resold, only left to a museum. The few dozen who made the cut included the late Leonard and Marjorie Vernon, whose collection was given to the J. Paul Getty Museum and is the centerpiece of "In Focus: Ansel Adams." (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Members of the media preview Jackson Pollock's “Mural,” 1943, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Monday, March 10, 2014. The oil-on-canvas work, measuring more than 8 feet high and nearly 20 feet long, has been under wraps at the J. Paul Getty Museum for more than a year undergoing extensive restoration. The painting, owned by the University of Iowa, will be on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum for three months, from March 11 to June 1, 2014 at the Getty Center. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )

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Yvonne Szafran, head of paintings conservation at the Getty Museum comments on the conservation treatment of Jackson Pollock's “Mural,” 1943, during a media preview at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Monday, March 10, 2014. The oil-on-canvas work, measuring more than 8 feet high and nearly 20 feet long, has been under wraps at the J. Paul Getty Museum for more than a year undergoing extensive restoration. The painting, owned by the University of Iowa, will be on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum for three months, from March 11 to June 1, 2014 at the Getty Center. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )

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Sean O'Harrow, director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art comments on the conservation treatment of his museum's Jackson Pollock's “Mural,” 1943, during a media preview at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Monday, March 10, 2014. The oil-on-canvas work, measuring more than 8 feet high and nearly 20 feet long, has been under wraps at the J. Paul Getty Museum for more than a year undergoing extensive restoration. The painting will be on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum for three months, from March 11 to June 1, 2014 at the Getty Center. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )

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A detail of Jackson Pollock's “Mural,” 1943, is seen during a media preview at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Monday, March 10, 2014. The oil-on-canvas work, measuring more than 8 feet high and nearly 20 feet long, has been under wraps at the J. Paul Getty Museum for more than a year undergoing extensive restoration. The painting, owned by the University of Iowa, will be on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum for three months, from March 11 to June 1, 2014 at the Getty Center. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )

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Members of the media preview Jackson Pollock's “Mural,” 1943, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Monday, March 10, 2014. The oil-on-canvas work, measuring more than 8 feet high and nearly 20 feet long, has been under wraps at the J. Paul Getty Museum for more than a year undergoing extensive restoration. The painting, owned by the University of Iowa, will be on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum for three months, from March 11 to June 1, 2014 at the Getty Center. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )

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Members of the media preview Jackson Pollock's “Mural,” 1943, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Monday, March 10, 2014. The oil-on-canvas work, measuring more than 8 feet high and nearly 20 feet long, has been under wraps at the J. Paul Getty Museum for more than a year undergoing extensive restoration. The painting, owned by the University of Iowa, will be on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum for three months, from March 11 to June 1, 2014 at the Getty Center. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )

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Jackson Pollock's “Mural,” 1943, as installed at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Monday, March 10, 2014. The oil-on-canvas work, measuring more than 8 feet high and nearly 20 feet long, has been under wraps at the J. Paul Getty Museum for more than a year undergoing extensive restoration. The painting, owned by the University of Iowa, will be on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum for three months, from March 11 to June 1, 2014 at the Getty Center. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )