Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Ansel Adams
‘Orchards - near Stanford, California’ (Early Spring)
Auction Closed
October 16, 07:11 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
‘Orchards - near Stanford, California’ (Early Spring)
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in ink on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 and 8), titled in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition label on the reverse
image: 15⅝ by 19½ in. (39.7 by 49.5 cm.)
Executed in 1940, probably printed between 1963 and 1970.
The Estate of the photographer to The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984
Acquired from the above, 2002
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (New York and Boston, 1977), p. 71
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 48
Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), inside cover and p. 79
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 328
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 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
