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 of Edward Weston (2 Photographs)

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6,000 - 9,000 USD

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Selected Images of Edward Weston (2 Photographs)


a group of 2 gelatin silver prints, comprising ‘Edward Weston, Carmel Highlands, California’ and ‘Edward Weston at Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park, Cal.,each mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 11 and I, respectively), 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 19½ by 14⅛ in. (49.5 by 35.9 cm.)

Executed in 1937 and 1939, probably printed between 1973 and 1979.

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

Acquired from the above, 2002

Edward Weston, Carmel Highlands, California:

Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 109

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (New York and Boston, 1977), p. 97

James Alinder, Ansel Adams: 50 Years of Portraits (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1978), pl. 13

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 145

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 237

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., California (Boston, 1997), p. 53

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 247

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 166


Edward Weston at Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park, California:

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 75

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 245

Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 70

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 170

Edward Weston, Carmel Highlands, 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: Portraits, November 1992 – February 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; 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


Edward Weston at Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park, 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: 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; 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