Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
'Aspens, Northern New Mexico' (Horizontal)
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October 16, 07:11 PM GMT
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30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
‘Aspens, Northern New Mexico’ (Horizontal)
gelatin silver print, mounted, 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 and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse
image: 17¾ by 22¼ in. (45.1 by 56.5 cm.)
Executed in 1958, probably printed between 1973 and 1977.
The Estate of the photographer to The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984
Acquired from the above, 2002
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This Is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960), cover and pp. 88-9
Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 96
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 116
James Alinder, Ansel Adams: Photographs of the American West (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1980), cover
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 60
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 174
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 314
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), p. 6
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 9.8
Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1993), p. 63
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), p. 85
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 104-5
Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 9
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), cover and p. 375
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 198
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.11
Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery, People’s Exhibition Hall, Ansel Adams: Photographer, February 1983, and traveling thereafter to: Haifa, Museum of Modern Art, May – August 1987
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, 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, Pennsylvania, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, March – August 2006; Ligonier, Pennsylvania, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, August – November 2006; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Institute of Art, May – August 2007; 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; San Marcos, Texas, The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, June – December 2016
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