Details

Provenance

, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2) image: 38 7/8 by 51 7/8 in. (98.7 by 131.8 cm.) frame: 53 3/4 by 69 1/2 in. (136.5 by 176.5 cm.)

Exhibited

Fresno, First Federal Savings and Loan, 1982 Yosemite, The Ansel Adams Gallery, 1983 (On the occasion of the Royal Visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Yosemite) Carpinteria, The Cate School, Ansel Adams: 1902-1984 , 1984 Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, 1989 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Art Center, Ansel Adams: The Museum Set , November 1995 – January 1996 Napa, Mumm Gallery, January 1997 – May 1998 Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection , August 2015 – January 2016

Literature

Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960) p. 15 Ansel Adams, The Print (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1968), fig. 1 Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings on Hudson, 1972), pl. 56 Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 192 James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 35 Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 331 Peter Wright and John Armor, The Mural Project: Photographs by Ansel Adams (Santa Barbara, 1989), p. 73 Andrea Gray Stillman and William A. Turnage, eds., Our National Parks (Boston, 1992), cover and p. 31 Ansel Adams: The National Park Services Photographs (London, 1994), pl. 137 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), cover and p. 205 Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Ansel Adams: Landscape of the American West (London, 2008), pp. 44-5 Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.7

Catalog summary

Ansel Adams 1902 - 1984 The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming mural-sized gelatin silver print, signed twice in ink on the image, flush-mounted, with partial title in ink on the reverse, framed, 1942, probably printed in the 1960s; accompanied by a certificate of provenance, signed by Michael and Jeanne Adams (2) image: 38 7/8 by 51 7/8 in. (98.7 by 131.8 cm.) frame: 53 3/4 by 69 1/2 in. (136.5 by 176.5 cm.) Provenance Collection of Virginia Best Adams By descent to Michael and Jeanne Adams, 1980s Acquired from the above, 2006 Exhibited Fresno, First Federal Savings and Loan, 1982 Yosemite, The Ansel Adams Gallery, 1983 (On the occasion of the Royal Visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Yosemite) Carpinteria, The Cate School, Ansel Adams: 1902-1984 , 1984 Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, 1989 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Art Center, Ansel Adams: The Museum Set , November 1995 – January 1996 Napa, Mumm Gallery, January 1997 – May 1998 Lubbock, Texas Tech University, Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection , August 2015 – January 2016 Literature Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960) p. 15 Ansel Adams, The Print (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1968), fig. 1 Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings on Hudson, 1972), pl. 56 Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 192 James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 35 Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 331 Peter Wright and John Armor, The Mural Project: Photographs by Ansel Adams (Santa Barbara, 1989), p. 73 Andrea Gray Stillman and William A. Turnage, eds., Our National Parks (Boston, 1992), cover and p. 31 Ansel Adams: The National Park Services Photographs (London, 1994), pl. 137 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), cover and p. 205 Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Ansel Adams: Landscape of the American West (London, 2008), pp. 44-5 Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.7