Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection
‘Trailside, Alaska’ (Near Juneau)
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October 16, 07:11 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1908 - 1984
‘Trailside, Alaska’ (near Juneau)
gelatin silver print, mounted to Hi-Art illustration board, signed in ink on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 and 8), titled and dated in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition label on the reverse
image: 16 by 12 in. (40.6 by 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 1947, probably printed between 1963 and 1970.
The Estate of the photographer to The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984
Acquired from the above, 2002
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963), unpaginated
Ansel Adams, Camera and Lens: The Creative Approach (New York, 1970), fig. 5
Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 49
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 53
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), pl. 94
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 69
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 229
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 181
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: Louisville, Kentucky, J. B. Speed Museum, September – November 1998; 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
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
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