id:			154597
accession number:	1989.19
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.19
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:05.409000

Barn, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1937. Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). Gelatin silver print; image: 24.3 x 34.6 cm (9 9/16 x 13 5/8 in.); matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1989.19 © 1981 Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust

title:				Barn, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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creation date:			1937
creation date earliest:		1937
creation date latest:		1937
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
copyright:			© 1981 Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1900-1950
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: 24.3 x 34.6 cm (9 9/16 x 13 5/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "Ansel Adams [signed]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1989
	opening date:   1990-02-06T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1989</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).

	title:		Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]
	opening date:   2001-10-05T00:00:00
	<i>Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]</i>. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France (organizer) (October 5-December 31, 2001); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (January 17-March 31, 2002); Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (April 10-June 25, 2002).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990: "Year in Review 1989," CMA Bulletin 77 (February 1990), p. 66, cat. no. 15.', 'opening_date': '1990-02-06T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, October 15, 1993 - January 9, 1994: "Ansel Adams from the Permanent Collection," Gallery 105, no cat.', 'opening_date': '1993-10-15T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (October 5-December 31, 2001); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (January 17-March 31, 2002); Musée Fabre, Montpellier (April 10-June 25, 2002).  "Made in U.S.A., l\'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme," exh. cat. color repr. p. 138.', 'opening_date': '2001-10-05T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 74
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