Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

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Ansel Adams

‘San Francisco from the San Bruno Mountains, California’

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

‘San Francisco from the San Bruno Mountains, California’


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA I), with title and date ‘circa 1975’ in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse

image: 14⅝ by 18¾ in. (37.1 by 47.6 cm.)

Executed circa 1952, printed circa 1975. 

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

Acquired from the above, 2002

James Alinder and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A San Francisco Heritage (San Francisco, 1987), pl. 3

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., California (Boston, 1997), p. 20

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 323

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


San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Ansel Adams: One with Beauty, May – September 1987


San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Big City: Photographs of San Francisco and the Bay by Ansel Adams, February – May 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, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, June – November 1995


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; 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