Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

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Ansel Adams

Selected Images of the Southwest (3 Photographs)

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October 16, 07:11 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Selected Images of the Southwest (3 Photographs)


a group of 3 gelatin silver prints, comprising ‘Ghost Ranch Hills, Northern New Mexico,’ ‘Saguaro Cactus, Arizona,and ‘Winnowing Grain, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, each mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11 and I), 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

images to 13⅞ by 19¼ in. (35.2 by 48.9 cm.)

Executed 1929-42, printed between 1973 and 1981.

The Estate of the photographer to The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984

Acquired from the above, 2002

Ghost Ranch Hills, Northern New Mexico:

Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), cover and pl. 6

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 15

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), pl. 12

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), pp. 15 and 89


Saguaro Cactus, Arizona:

Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 60

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (New York and Boston, 1977), p. 6

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, The Museum Set (Boston, 1985), pl. 47

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), pl. 22

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), p. 62


Winnowing Grain, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico:

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light (San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1963), p. 58

Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 45

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 4

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, eds., Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (New York, 1988), p. 41

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 56

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), p. 92

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 60

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, Pennsylvania, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, March – August 2006Loretta 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