Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

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Ansel Adams

'Surf Sequence, San Mateo County Coast, California'

Auction Closed

October 16, 07:11 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

‘Surf Sequence, San Mateo County Coast, California’


five gelatin silver prints, each mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA I), with title, sequence number, and date in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse

images approximately 11 by 13 in. (27.9 by 33 cm.)

Executed in 1940, printed between 1981 and 1982.

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

Acquired from the above, 2002


James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1976), pls. 26-30

James Alinder, Ansel Adams: Photographs of the American West (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1980), unpaginated (Surf Sequence 3)

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), pp. 22, 24-25

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), pp. 198-99 (Surf Sequence 1, 3-5)

Karen E. Quinn and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Ansel Adams: The Early Years (Boston, 1991), pl. 21 (Surf Sequence 4)

Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1993), p. 26 (Surf Sequence 2-5)

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pls. 54-58

Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005), pp. 94-95

Britt Salvesen, John Szarkowski, and Amy Rule, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 2006), fig. 16 

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), pp. 252-53

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), p. 105 (Surf Sequence 5)

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; 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