Collectors Carol Vernon and Robert Getty Tarbin donated so-called "museum collection" Ansel Adams - printed by the author sets of photos, which he sold to private owners on the condition of any future transfer of the museum

Ansel Adams
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Negative 1941. imprint in 1980. 38,5 x 48,9
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Los Angeles Getty Museum announced today that it has received a generous gift of 25 photographs of the famous American photographer Ansel Adams (Ansel Adams). couple, Carol Vernon (Carol Vernon) and Robert Tarbin (Robert Turbin) donated to the museum so-called "museum collection "Ansel Adams - printed by the author sets of photos, which he sold to private owners on the condition of any future transfer of the museum. Carol got pictures of her parents - Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, who in turn acquired them in 1981. All Photos in perfect condition, and this kit certainly enrich the collection of photographs in the collection of the Getty Adams, who received a gift to the museum was 40.

In 1979, the sunset long creative career, Adams began work on "museum sets" - a project implemented with the support of Maggie Weston, Weston Gallery in Carmel (Calif.). Of the more than 2.5 thousand negatives, Adams selected 75, which in its inception, covering the period from 1923 to 1968. collectors given the opportunity to or just buy a full set of 75 images, or select on your own top 25 favorite photos. author himself manufactured the prints for these "museum sets." Each such set called "The Museum Set Ansel Adams" and sold only under the condition that over time it will be transferred to the museum.

«" Museum kits "- it is a very significant phenomenon in the creative career of Adams: thanks to them we can understand how the author evaluated their work and how he would like to submit a future generations, - the senior curator of photographs of the Getty Museum Judith Keller (Judith Keller). - The creation of these sets of accounts for the time when Adams undertook to write his autobiography, and for several years before he founded the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona. So " museum kits "can be considered one of the manifestations of self-examination after a long and successful career».

This set was bought by husband and wife Leonard and Marjorie Vernon in 1981 in the Weston Gallery. pair collected photos from 1976 they managed to create a major collection of photography XIX - XX centuries. As soon as each potential buyer, "Ansel Adams museum kit" given the right choice, then a set of 25 images, drawn up according to the tastes of Vernon, is not unlike any other of the existing.

Many sets of photographs depicts Yosemite Park (9 papers) and the Sierra Nevada mountains (3 pictures). There are also a set of two photographs of Alaska and Northern California 3 pictures, including photos of the Golden Gate Strait in San Francisco, made in 1932, before construction of the famous red suspension bridge. Three papers are devoted to the nature of the Southwest United States, among them the most famous work, "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" (1941) - another print from this negative was sold at Sotheby's auction in June 2010 to 518.5 thousand dollars and is One of the most expensive pictures in the world. got a set of mostly landscape and two portrait - a portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe doubles and Orville Cox (1937), as well as a snapshot of close-up of Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco (1933).

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

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