Ansel Adams

mounted on Crescent illustration board, signed in ink on the mount, Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 5 and 6), titled in ink, on the reverse, framed, an Ansel Adams & Edwin Land exhibition label and a  Polaroid Collection stamp on the reverse, 1948, probably printed between 1962 and 1963 (400 Photographs, p. 300; California, p. 93)

Naples, Florida, Museum of Art, Ansel Adams & Edwin Land: Art, Science and Invention, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, May - July 2004, and travelling to 8 other venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

This is a striking print when viewed from a normal distance. In raking light, craquelure is visible throughout the print. Also visible are various surface scratches, which generally do not appear to break the emulsion, and various tiny deposits of original retouching that have turned a greenish hue. The mount is overmatted along the top, left, and right edges, and a tiny rust-colored droplet of indeterminate nature is visible next to the bottom left corner of the print. Karen Haas's and Rebecca Senf's book, 'Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection,' publishes the most comprehensive list to date of the studio stamps and labels Adams used throughout his career. The authors' assessment of the use dates of stamp 5 and 6 is between 1962 and 1963.
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