Ansel Adams

mounted, signed by the photographer in pencil on the mount, his Carmel studio stamp, titled and dated in an unidentified hand in ink, on the reverse, matted, framed, circa 1938, printed in 1981

Other prints of this image:

Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 71

Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), cover

Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (New York, 2007), p. 123

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 102

Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 243

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 46

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 369

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), pl. 1

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (Boston, 2001), p. 89

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 49

Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography, 1849-1950 (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1992, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 128

Robert Doty, Photography in America (New York, 1974), pp. 128-29

This photograph, on paper with a slight surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. At the top edge of the mount there are two small squares of adhesive residue from the current overmat. We base our dating of this print on the printing date of '1981' written in the photographer's Carmel studio stamp on the reverse of the mount.
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