Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

Ansel Adams

Selected Portraits (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 Portraits (3 Photographs)

a group of 3 gelatin silver prints, comprising ‘“A Man of Taos,” Tony Lujan;’ ‘Spanish-American Woman, Near Chimayo, New Mexico;’ and ‘Navajo Woman, Wide Ruin, Arizona,’ each mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 11), with title and two with date in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse

images to 15⅞ by 12 in. (40.3 by 30.5 cm.)

Executed in 1930 - circa 1948, probably printed between 1973 and 1977.

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

Acquired from the above, 2002

Tony Lujan, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico:

Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 12

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 93

Andy Grundberg, From the Private Collection of Margaret Weston: Ansel Adams (Carmel: Center for Photographic Art, 1995), unpaginated

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 53

Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 119

Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 4.13

Spanish-American Woman Near Chimayo, New Mexico:

Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 47

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 17

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), p. 19

Navajo Woman, Wide Ruin, Arizona:

Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 62

Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 39

Tony Lujan, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico:

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: Portraits, November 1992 – February 1993

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; 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

Spanish-American Woman Near Chimayo, New Mexico:

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; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, May – August 2000

Navajo Woman, Wide Ruin, Arizona:

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: Portraits, November 1992 – February 1993

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; San Marcos, Texas, The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, June – December 2016

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.