id: 171651 accession number: 2014.416 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.416 updated: 2025-09-17 14:16:02.188000 Yosemite Valley Portfolio III: Trees and Snow, 1933, printed 1960. Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). Gelatin silver print; image: 28.2 x 22 cm (11 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.); mounted: 45.7 x 35.5 cm (18 x 14 in.); paper: 28.2 x 22 cm (11 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Frances P. Taft, 2014.416. © Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust title: Trees and Snow title in original language: series: Yosemite Valley Portfolio III series in original language: creation date: 1933, printed 1960 creation date earliest: 1933 creation date latest: 1933 current location: creditline: Gift of Frances P. Taft copyright: © Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust --- culture: America 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: 28.2 x 22 cm (11 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.); Mounted: 45.7 x 35.5 cm (18 x 14 in.); Paper: 28.2 x 22 cm (11 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount: "Ansel Adams (signed)" Written in ink on recto of mount: "4" Imprinted in black type on verso: "PORTFOLIO THREE/(Yosemite Valley)/ANSEL ADAMS/PRINT NO.4 (written in red ink) OF SET NO. 44 (written in red ink)/Published By/THE SIERRA CLUB/SAN FRANCISCO/1959/Reproduction Rights Reserved/TYPOGRAPHY AND CASES/COMPLETED IN 1960" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Ansel Adams (the artist) [1902–1984], sold to John Paul Miller [1918–2013] date: 1960–? footnotes: citations: John Paul Miller [1918–2013], given to Frances P. Taft, Pepper Pike, OH date: ?–? footnotes: citations: Frances P. Taft [1921–2017], Pepper Pike, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1980s–2014 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 1, 2014– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Gifts of Works of Art.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 55, no. 6 (November/December 2015):33. page number: Reproduced: p. 33 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2015-06 --- IMAGES