Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

Ansel Adams

'Fern Springs, Yosemite Valley' (Dusk)

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

The photographs have been copyrighted by the Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, and the Trustees reserve all publishing right and copyrights as well as all rights to use the name, likeness, and persona of Ansel Adams for commercial purposes and that, other than for public display of the photographs themselves, the photographs may not be reproduced for any purpose or utilized in violation of such copyrights, nor may the name, likeness, or persona of Ansel Adams be utilized for any commercial or other purpose, without the expressed written consent of the Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.