Ansel Adams

mural-sized, from a Polaroid Type 55 negative, flush-mounted, framed, an Ansel Adams & Edwin Land exhibition label on the reverse, 1949, probably printed in the 1960s

Quito, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, From the Polaroid Collection: Ansel Adams, sponsored by the Embassy of the United States, October - November 2001, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2003 (see Appendix 1)

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

Other prints of this image:

Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 296

Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 107

Janet Swan Bush, ed., Ansel Adams: Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 74

This print is in generally very good condition. Upon very close examination, the following are visible: small deposits of white paint near the edges of the image; a razor-thin, barely discernable horizontal cut in the print along the lower edge; and small losses of emulsion along the lower edge and in the upper right and left quadrants of the image. None of these disturbances are immediately discernable when viewing the print at a normal distance and do not detract from the overall fine appearance of this photograph. This photograph is in a modern black frame and is glazed.
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