Ansel Adams

from a Polaroid Type 55 negative, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, a Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title in ink, a 'Display Print' stamp and a typed label on the reverse, framed, 1946, probably printed between 1973 and 1977 (400 Photographs, p. 242; This Is the American Earth, p. 50)

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, September - November 2000, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2001 (see Appendix 1)

American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2000), pl. 147 (this print)

This photograph is in generally excellent condition. In raking light along the middle right edge of the print is a ¼-inch raised area, which likely occured during drymounting. 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 11 is between 1973 and 1977.
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