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Ansel Adams

Oak Tree, Sunset City, Sierra Foothills, California

Auction Closed

October 16, 07:11 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Oak Tree, Sunset City, Sierra Foothills, California


gelatin silver print, plate 8 from Portfolio IV (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963, a total edition of 260), mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the printed portfolio label and annotation ‘X-1’ in red ink on the reverse, framed, an exhibition label from The Cleveland Museum of Art on the reverse

image: 7¼ by 8½ in. (18.4 by 21.6 cm.)

Executed in 1962, printed in 1963.

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, 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, Pennsylvania, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, March – August 2006; Ligonier, Pennsylvania, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, August – November 2006; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Institute of Art, May – August 2007; Tucson, Arizona, 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

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

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The American Wilderness (Boston, 1990), pl. 26