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accession number: 2011.219
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Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, 1947, printed in 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
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creation date: 1947, printed in or before 1979
creation date earliest: 1947
creation date latest: 1947
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creditline: Gift of Lynn Schreiber
copyright: © Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
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culture: America
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: 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.)
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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"
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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: 2021-02-06T05:00:00
Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Tannenbaum, Barbara. “From Long Shot to Close-up: A brief history of the photography collection.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 30-33.
page number: Reproduced: P. 30.
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