Ansel Adams
Vineyard, Soledad, California
Auction Closed
December 14, 10:16 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
Vineyard, Soledad, California
mural-sized gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, signed with a stylus on the image, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, label on the reverse, circa 1959
image: 27 7/8 by 39 7/8 in. (70.8 by 99.1 cm.)
frame: 43 1/2 by 55 in. (110.5 by 139.7 cm.)
Otto Meyer, President of Paul Masson Vineyards
By descent to Thomas Meyer
Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, 2003, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
Santa Fe, The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, May – September 2008, and traveling thereafter to The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D. C.
Jonathan Spaulding, Ansel Adams and the American Landscape (Berkeley, 1998), unpaginated
The prints that Adams produced for Paul Masson Vineyards were limited. Three examples were printed of each image: one for a traveling exhibition sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution (1963-66); one for Otto Meyer, the President of Paul Masson; and one for the Seagrams Collection.