Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

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Ansel Adams

'Aspens, Northern New Mexico' (Vertical)

Auction Closed

October 16, 07:11 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

‘Aspens, Northern New Mexico’ (Vertical)


mural-sized gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse

image: 33⅜ by 26⅜ in. (84.8 by 67 cm.)

Executed in 1958, probably printed in the 1970s.

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

Acquired from the above, 2002

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light (San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1963), p. 19

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963), unpaginated

Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 95

Ansel Adams, The Camera (Boston, 1980), cover and fig. 11-1

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 63

James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 20

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 177

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 63

James Alinder, ed., Light Years: The Friends of Photography, 1967-1987 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1987), cover

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), front leaf

John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 9.1

Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 7

Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 49

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), spine and p. 373

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 200

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: Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, July – September 2010; 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; San Marcos, Texas, The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, June – December 2016