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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 | 66 | $****** - ****** | ‘Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California" |
photographs
38.4 x 47.3 cm (15.13 x 18.63 in)
gelatin silver print, mounted to Crescent illustration board
signed in ink on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 5, 6, and 11), titled and with date in ink, The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition label 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 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
Ansel Adams, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans (New York, 1944), pp. 18-19
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, The Pageant of History in Northern California (San Francisco, 1954), pl. 2
Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 80
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 46
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 66
James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 16
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 40
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), pl. 28
Michael Read, ed., Ansel Adams, New Light: Essays on His Legacy and Legend (San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1993), p. 20
Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 261
Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adam s (Boston, 2012), p. 158
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.3
Ansel Adams
1902 -1984
‘Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California"
gelatin silver print, mounted to Crescent illustration board, signed in ink on the mount, the photographer"s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 5, 6, and 11), titled and with date in ink, The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition label on the reverse
image: 15⅛ by 18⅝ in. (38.4 by 47.3 cm.)
Executed in 1944, probably printed in the 1960s.
