Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Ansel Adams
‘Burro Mesa and the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas’
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
‘Burro Mesa and the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas’
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 exhibition labels on the reverse
image: 15⅛ by 19⅛ in. (38.4 by 48.6 cm.)
Executed in 1942, 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, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 72
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 182
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), pl. 8
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), p. 51
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: 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; 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
As of this writing, no other prints of this image have appeared at auction. Prints of this image are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
