Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

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Ansel Adams

Selected Images (3 Photographs)

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10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Selected Images (3 Photographs)


a group of 3 gelatin silver prints, comprising 'Pine Needle & Bark, California,' 'Leaves, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington,' and 'Tree Stump and Mist, Northern Cascades, Washington,' each mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamps, with title and date in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse

images to 15¼ by 19⅛ in. (38.7 by 48.6 cm.)

Executed circa 1942-58, printed between 1973-81.

The Estate of the photographer to The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984

Acquired from the above, 2002

Pine Needle & Bark, California:

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 384

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), p. 140


Leaves, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington:

Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This Is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960), p. vi

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 49

Andrea Gray Stillman and William A. Turnage, eds., Ansel Adams: Our National Parks (Boston, 1992), p. 37

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 216


Tree Stump and Mist, Northern Cascades, Washington:

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (New York and Boston, 1977), p. 114

Ansel Adams and Robert Turnage, Celebrating the American Earth: A Portfolio by Ansel Adams (Washington, D. C.: The Wilderness Society, 1980), unpaginated

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 253

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), pl. 86

Andrea Gray Stillman and William A. Turnage, eds., Ansel Adams: Our National Parks (Boston, 1992), p. 41

Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 21

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 364.

Pine Needle & Bark, California:

Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery, People’s Exhibition Hall, Ansel Adams: Photographer, February 1983, and traveling thereafter to: Beijing, National Museum of Art, March 1983; Tokyo, Odakyu Store Art Gallery, June 1983; Hong Kong Arts Centre, July – August 1983; San Diego, Museum of Photographic Arts, June – August 1984; Haifa, Museum of Modern Art, May – August 1987


San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Ansel Adams, a Legacy: Masterworks from the Friends of Photography Collection, March – June, 1997, and traveling thereafter to: Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, July – September 1997; Louisville, Kentucky, J. B. Speed Museum, September – November 1998; Fort Wayne, Indiana, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, December 1998 – February 1999; Japan, Nihombashi, Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, March, 1999; Japan, Ehime Prefecture Museum, June – July 1999; Japan, Toyama Prefecture, Tonami City Museum, July – August 1999; Japan, Hokkaido, Kushiro Art Museum, September – October 1999; Japan, Kawasaki City Museum, October – December 1999; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, May – August 2000


Billings, Montana, Yellowstone Art Museum, Ansel Adams: a Legacy, October 2002 – January 2003 and traveling thereafter to: University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center, Ansel Adams: a Legacy, August 2005 – January 2006; Loretta and Ligonier, Pennsylvania, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, March – November 2006; Tucson Museum of Art, October 2009 – February 2010; Missoula, Montana, Missoula Art Museum, October 2011 – April 2012; Helena, Montana, The Holter Museum of Art, January – April 2013; Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia, The Fralin Museum of Art, June – October 2013


Leaves, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington:

Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery, People’s Exhibition Hall, Ansel Adams: Photographer, February 1983; and traveling thereafter to: Beijing, National Museum of Art, March 1983; Tokyo, Odakyu Store Art Gallery, June 1983; Hong Kong Arts Centre, July – August 1983; Haifa, Museum of Modern Art, Ansel Adams: Photographer, May – August 1987


San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Ansel Adams and the National Parks, June – September 1992


San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, This Is the American Earth, September – November 1992; and traveling thereafter to: Washington, D. C., American Museum of Natural History, December 1992 – January 1993; Tokyo, Japan, Laforet Museum Espace, February 1993; Nagoya, Japan, Parco Co., Ltd, March 1993; Hiroshima, Japan, Izumi Wizwonderland, March – April 1993; Osaka, Japan, Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd., April – May 1993; Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Museum, May – September 1993


San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Ansel Adams, a Legacy: Masterworks from the Friends of Photography Collection, March – June, 1997, and traveling thereafter to: Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, July – September 1997; Louisville, Kentucky, J. B. Speed Museum, September – November 1998; Japan, Nihombashi, Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, March, 1999; Japan, Ehime Prefecture Museum, June – July 1999; Japan, Toyama Prefecture, Tonami City Museum, July – August 1999; Japan, Hokkaido, Kushiro Art Museum, September – October 1999; Japan, Kawasaki City Museum, October – December 1999; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, May – August 2000


Billings, Montana, Yellowstone Art Museum, Ansel Adams: a Legacy, October 2002 – January 2003 and traveling thereafter to: University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center, Ansel Adams: a Legacy, August 2005 – January 2006; Loretta and Ligonier, Pennsylvania, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, March – November 2006; Tucson Museum of Art, October 2009 – February 2010; Missoula, Montana, Missoula Art Museum, October 2011 – April 2012; Helena, Montana, The Holter Museum of Art, January – April 2013; Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia, The Fralin Museum of Art, June – October 2013


Tree Stump and Mist, Northern Cascades, Washington:

Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery, People’s Exhibition Hall, Ansel Adams: Photographer, February 1983; and traveling thereafter to: Beijing, National Museum of Art, March 1983; Tokyo, Odakyu Store Art Gallery, June 1983; Hong Kong Arts Centre, July – August 1983; San Diego, Museum of Photographic Arts, Ansel Adams: Photographer, June - August 1984; Museum of Modern Art, May – August 1987


San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Ansel Adams and the National Parks, June – September 1992


San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, This Is the American Earth, September – November 1992; and traveling thereafter to: Washington, D. C., American Museum of Natural History, December 1992 – January 1993; Tokyo, Japan, Laforet Museum Espace, February 1993; Nagoya, Japan, Parco Co., Ltd, March 1993; Hiroshima, Japan, Izumi Wizwonderland, March – April 1993; Osaka, Japan, Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd., April – May 1993; Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Museum, May – September 1993


San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Ansel Adams, a Legacy: Masterworks from the Friends of Photography Collection, March – June, 1997, and traveling thereafter to: Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, July – September 1997; Louisville, Kentucky, J. B. Speed Museum, September – November 1998; Japan, Nihombashi, Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, March, 1999; Japan, Ehime Prefecture Museum, June – July 1999; Japan, Toyama Prefecture, Tonami City Museum, July – August 1999; Japan, Hokkaido, Kushiro Art Museum, September – October 1999; Japan, Kawasaki City Museum, October – December 1999


Billings, Montana, Yellowstone Art Museum, Ansel Adams: a Legacy, October 2002 – January 2003 and traveling thereafter to: University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center, Ansel Adams: a Legacy, August 2005 – January 2006;Loretta and Ligonier, Pennsylvania, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, March – November 2006; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Institute of Art, May – August 2007; Tucson Museum of Art, October 2009 – February 2010; Missoula, Montana, Missoula Art Museum, October 2011 – April 2012; Helena, Montana, The Holter Museum of Art, January – April 2013; Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia, The Fralin Museum of Art, June – October 2013