Ansel Adams

mural-sized, flush-mounted, framed, Ansel Adams & Edwin Land exhibition and Polaroid Collection labels and Polaroid Collection stamps on the reverse, 1939, probably printed in the 1950s or 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:

Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 70

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 24

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 140

Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 40

The Porfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 42

This commanding mural-sized print is in generally excellent condition. The photograph has undergone conservation. This conservation was successful, and a treatment report is available upon request. Only upon very close examination, a few small creases in the upper portion of the image are visible. This photograph is in a modern black frame and is glazed.
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