id: 169366 accession number: 2011.219 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.219 updated: 2021-02-06 10:05:42.571000 Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, 1947, printed on or before 1979. Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984). Gelatin silver print; image: 38.8 x 48.8 cm (15 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.); mounted: 55.6 x 70.8 cm (21 7/8 x 27 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn Schreiber 2011.219 © Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust title: Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1947, printed on or before 1979 creation date earliest: 1947 creation date latest: 1947 current location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall - 13 creditline: Gift of Lynn Schreiber copyright: © Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Image: 38.8 x 48.8 cm (15 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.); Mounted: 55.6 x 70.8 cm (21 7/8 x 27 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount: "Ansel Adams (signed)" Stamped in black ink and filled in with fine black marker on verso of mount: "Photograph by Ansel Adams/Mt.McKinley and Wonderlake/Mt.McKinley National Park, Alaska 1947/Route I Box 181 Carmel, California 93921" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: Ansel Adams shot this photograph in July 1947 at around 1:30 a.m., which is sunrise in that part of Alaska in midsummer. digital description: Because of Adams's choice of time and framing, the mountain floats majestically above still-dark plains, inspiring awe in nature and respect for the grand scale of the American continent. Taken in a national park that few had visited at that point, this image and others made by Adams on that trip helped inspire Alaskan tourism and furthered the territory’s battle to gain statehood. wall description: Ansel Adams shot this photograph in July 1947 at around 1:30 a.m., which is sunrise in that part of Alaska in midsummer. Because of his choice of time and framing, the mountain floats majestically above still-dark plains, inspiring awe in nature and respect for the grand scale of the American continent. Taken in a national park that few had visited at that point, this image and others made by Adams on that trip helped inspire Alaskan tourism and furthered the territory’s battle to gain statehood. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES