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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 16, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Ansel Adams: A Legacy | Photographs from the Meredith Collection | 46 | $****** - ****** | "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" |
photographs
45.7 x 58.7 cm (18 x 23.13 in)
oversized gelatin silver print, mounted, framed
signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date in ink, on the reverse; The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse
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, June - August 1984; Haifa, Museum of Modern Art, May - August 1987
San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Moonrise: A Tribute , August - November 1991
San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, The Friends of Photography, 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
Tom Maloney, ed., U.S. Camera 1943 (New York, 1942), pp. 88-89
Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 63
Robert Doty, ed., Photography in America (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974), pp. 130-31
Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Boston, 1976), pl. 55
Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection (Birmingham, 1982), pl. 125
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), cover and p. 41
James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 55
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images , (Boston, 1985), pl. 32
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 142
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), frontispiece
Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House (Köln, 2000), p. 643
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 96
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 2002), p. 40
Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005), pl. 37
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 175
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O"Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), fig. 3 and p. 109
Karen E. Haas, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection (Boston, 2011), pl. 8
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. 6.15
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
"Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico"
oversized gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), 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
image: 18 by 23⅛ in. (45.7 by 58.7 cm.)
Executed in 1941, probably printed between 1973 and 1977.
