Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Ansel Adams
'Golden Gate Headlands from Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California'
Auction Closed
October 16, 07:11 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
‘Golden Gate Headlands from Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California’
gelatin silver print, mounted to Crescent illustration board, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition label on the reverse
image: 14⅞ by 18¾ in. (37.8 by 47.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1950, probably printed between 1973 and 1977.
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), cover
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, Big City: Photographs of San Francisco and the Bay by Ansel Adams, February – May 1992
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
