Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

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Ansel Adams

‘Thundercloud, Lake Tahoe, California’

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

‘Thundercloud, Lake Tahoe, California’


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA I), 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

image: 14⅝ by 11½ in. (37.1 by 29.2 cm.)

Executed in 1938, probably printed between 1978 and 1984.

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

Acquired from the above, 2002


Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light (San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1963), p. 119

Ansel Adams, Camera and Lens: The Creative Approach (New York, 1970), fig. 4

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

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., California (Boston, 1997), p. 85

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 139

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; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Institute of Art, May – August 2007; Tucson Museum of Art, October 2009 – February 2010; Cartersville, Georgia, Booth Western Art Museum, September 2010 – March 2011; 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