Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

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Ansel Adams

‘Merced River, Cliffs, Autumn, Yosemite National Park, California’

Auction Closed

October 16, 07:11 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

‘Merced River, Cliffs, Autumn, Yosemite National Park, California’


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: 15½ by 19 in. (39.3 by 48.3 cm.)

Executed circa 1939, probably printed between 1973 and 1977.

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), pp. 152-53

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 42

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 40

James Alinder, Ansel Adams: Photographs of the American West (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1980), unpaginated

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 140

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 24

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), p, 26

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 103

Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 135

Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 175

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: Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, July – September 1997; Louisville, Kentucky, J. B. Speed Museum, September – November 1998; 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