
‘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
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
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
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