Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection

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Ansel Adams

‘The Snake River & the Tetons, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming’

Auction Closed

October 16, 07:11 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

‘The Snake River & the Tetons, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming’


gelatin silver print, mounted to Flaxon illustration board, signed in ink on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 5, 6, 10 and 11), with title in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse

image: 19⅝ by 15⅛ in. (49.8 by 38.4 cm.)

Executed in the 1950s, probably printed between 1962 and 1963.

Please note the negative date is in the 1950s, not 1942 as previously catalogued.

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 Diego, Museum of Photographic Arts, Ansel Adams: Photographer, June – August 1984


San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Ansel Adams and the National Parks, June – September 1992


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; 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; Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia, The Fralin Museum of Art, June – October 2013; Helena, Montana, The Holter Museum of Art, January – April 2013