id: 141753
accession number: 1965.333
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Thunderstorm Over the Great Plains, Near Cimarron, New Mexico, c. 1961 (printed after 1965). Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). Gelatin silver print; image: 36 x 48 cm (14 3/16 x 18 7/8 in.); matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts 1965.333 © 2011 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
title: Thunderstorm Over the Great Plains, Near Cimarron, New Mexico
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creation date: c. 1961 (printed after 1965)
creation date earliest: 1956
creation date latest: 1966
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creditline: Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts
copyright: © 2011 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
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culture: America
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1951-Present
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984) - artist
Ansel Adams American, 1902-1984
San Francisco-born Ansel Adams took his first photograph in 1916. More than a dozen years later (during which time he also trained as a concert pianist), he decided on photography as a career. A master of the natural landscape photograph, Adams became famous for his spectacular, reverential images of the American West. He also was known for his technical skill, conceiving the zone system method of exposure and development control.
An advocate of straight, unmanipulated photography, in 1932 Adams cofounded Group f/64 (among the other founding members were Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, and Willard Van Dyke), and that year exhibited his work with the group at San Francisco's M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. In 1936 his images were featured in a one-person exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz's New York gallery, An American Place, and three years later he took part in group exhibitions at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1940 Adams helped found the department of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, and later in the decade was awarded two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to photograph America's national parks.
Beginning in the 1930s and continuing throughout his long, productive career, Adams published numerous books and portfolios of his images. His technical books on photography, including Making a Photograph, Basic Photo Series, and Polaroid Land Photography Manual, were also popular. Adams was influential not only as a photographer but also as a teacher, lecturer, and conservationist. In 1980 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 36 x 48 cm (14 3/16 x 18 7/8 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
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inscription: Typed on label on verso: " 'East to the Great Plains,/From Cimarron, New Mexico'/Original Photograph by Ansel Adams"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1965
opening date: 1965-10-27T04:00:00
Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).
title: Photograph Exhibition
opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00
Photograph Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-September 19, 1971).
title: Source Material for Studio Projects
opening date: 1972-06-20T04:00:00
Source Material for Studio Projects. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20-August 27, 1972).
title: Ansel Adams: Photographs from the Permanent Collection
opening date: 1993-10-15T04:00:00
Ansel Adams: Photographs from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15, 1993-January 9, 1994).
title: Contemporary Landscape Photography
opening date: 2011-03-26T00:00:00
Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-August 14, 2011).
title: Ansel Adams: A Photographer’s Evolution
opening date: 2018-06-23T04:00:00
Ansel Adams: A Photographer’s Evolution. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 16, 2018).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': "Photography in Fine Arts. New York World's Fair, New York, NY (1965).", 'opening_date': '1965-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Selection of Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, Cleveland, OH (1979).', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 9 (1965): 124-57.
page number: p. 157, no. 173
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152069
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 77
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