Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

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Ansel Adams

'Berkeley and the Golden Gate, San Francisco, California'

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1908 - 1984

‘Berkeley and the Golden Gate, San Francisco, California’


gelatin silver print, mounted to Hi-Art illustration board, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 11), titled in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse

image: 19¼ by 15½ in. (48.9 by 39.4 cm.)

Executed in 1953, 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, Fiat Lux: The University of California (Berkeley, 1967), p. 10

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 Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Ansel Adams, a Legacy: Masterworks from the Friends of Photography Collection, March – June 1997, and traveling thereafter to: Chattanooga, Tennessee, 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