Ansel Adams
'The Golden Gate Bridge from Baker Beach, San Francisco'
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October 16, 07:11 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1908 - 1984
‘The Golden Gate from Baker Beach, San Francisco’
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s San Francisco studio stamp (BMFA 4), titled and cancelled in ink, his Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 5 and 6), titled in ink, and annotated 'Courtesy Wells Fargo Bank American Trust Company' and 'Courtesy American Trust Company', the latter cancelled, in ink on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition label on the reverse
image: 15⅜ by 19½ in. (39.1 by 49.5 cm.)
Executed in 1953, probably printed in the 1950s.
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
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Ansel Adams: One with Beauty, May – September 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
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
James Alinder and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A San Francisco Heritage (San Francisco, 1987), frontispiece
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 325
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