Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Portfolio IV, What Majestic Word: In Memory of Russell Varian
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October 16, 07:11 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
Portfolio IV, What Majestic Word: In Memory of Russell Varian
the complete portfolio of 15 gelatin silver prints from Portfolio IV (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963, an edition of 260), each mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the printed portfolio label and number ‘229’ in red ink on the reverse, each framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse
images from 7¾ by 7¼ in. (19.7 by 18.4 cm.) to 10 by 12¼ in. (25.4 by 31.1 cm.)
Executed in 1943-63, printed in 1963.
The Estate of the photographer to The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984
Acquired from the above, 2002
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, 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; Cartersville, Georgia, Booth Western Art Museum, September 2010 – March 2011; Missoula, Montana, Missoula Art Museum, October 2011 – April 2012
This group of framed photographs is lacking the original cloth clamshell box and printed front matter.
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