Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Ansel Adams
'Fern Springs, Yosemite Valley' (Dusk)
Auction Closed
October 16, 07:11 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
‘Fern Springs, Yosemite Valley’ (Dusk)
gelatin silver print, mounted to Crescent illustration board, signed in ink on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 5, 6, 10, and D), titled and annotated 'Polaroid Corporation' in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition label on the reverse
image: 19½ by 15¼ in. (49.5 by 38.7 cm.)
Executed in 1961, probably printed between 1961 and 1963.
The Estate of the photographer to The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984
Acquired from the above, 2002
Edwin Land, David H. McAlpin, Jon Holmes, and Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Singular Images (Dobbs Ferry, 1974), pl. 48
Ansel Adams and Robert Baker, Polaroid Land Photography (Boston, 1978), frontispiece, fig. 4-3, and p. 48
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), p. 47
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 380
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 and the National Parks, June – September 1992
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; 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
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; 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
