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Provenance

The Estate of the photographer to The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984 Acquired from the above, 2002

Exhibited

Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery, People’s Exhibition Hall, Ansel Adams: Photographer , February 1983, and traveling thereafter to: Beijing, National Museum of Art, March 1983; Tokyo, Odakyu Store Art Gallery, June 1983; Hong Kong Arts Centre, July – August 1983; San Diego, Museum of Photographic Arts, June – August 1984; Haifa, Museum of Modern Art, May – August 1987 San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Ansel Adams, a Legacy: Masterworks from the Friends of Photography Collection , March – June, 1997, and traveling thereafter to: Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, July – September 2010; Japan, Nihombashi, Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, March, 1999; Japan, Ehime Prefecture Museum, June – July 1999; Japan, Toyama Prefecture, Tonami City Museum, July – August 1999; Japan, Hokkaido, Kushiro Art Museum, September – October 1999; Japan, Kawasaki City Museum, October – December 1999; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, May – August 2000 Billings, Montana, Yellowstone Art Museum, Ansel Adams: a Legacy , October 2002 – January 2003 and traveling thereafter to: University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center, Ansel Adams: a Legacy , August 2005 – January 2006; Loretta and Ligonier, Pennsylvania, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, March – November 2006; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Institute of Art, May – August 2007; Tucson Museum of Art, October 2009 – February 2010; Cartersville, Georgia, Booth Western Art Museum, September 2010 – March 2011; Missoula, Montana, Missoula Art Museum, October 2011 – April 2012; Helena, Montana, The Holter Museum of Art, January – April 2013; Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia, The Fralin Museum of Art, June – October 2013; San Marcos, Texas, The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, June – December 2016

Literature

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light (San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1963), p. 19 Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963), unpaginated Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 95 Ansel Adams, The Camera (Boston, 1980), cover and fig. 11-1 Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 63 James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 20 Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 177 James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 63 James Alinder, ed., Light Years: The Friends of Photography, 1967-1987 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1987), cover Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), front leaf John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 9.1 Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 7 Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 49 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), spine and p. 373 Andrea Gray Stillman , Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 200 Additional Notices & Disclaimers The photographs have been copyrighted by the Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, and the Trustees reserve all publishing right and copyrights as well as all rights to use the name, likeness, and persona of Ansel Adams for commercial purposes and that, other than for public display of the photographs themselves, the photographs may not be reproduced for any purpose or utilized in violation of such copyrights, nor may the name, likeness, or persona of Ansel Adams be utilized for any commercial or other purpose, without the expressed written consent of the Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.

Catalog summary

Description Ansel Adams 1902 - 1984 ‘Aspens, Northern New Mexico’ (Vertical) mural-sized gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse image: 33⅜ by 26⅜ in. (84.8 by 67 cm.) Executed in 1958, probably printed in the 1970s. Provenance The Estate of the photographer to The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984 Acquired from the above, 2002 Exhibited Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery, People’s Exhibition Hall, Ansel Adams: Photographer , February 1983, and traveling thereafter to: Beijing, National Museum of Art, March 1983; Tokyo, Odakyu Store Art Gallery, June 1983; Hong Kong Arts Centre, July – August 1983; San Diego, Museum of Photographic Arts, June – August 1984; Haifa, Museum of Modern Art, May – August 1987 San Francisco, Ansel Adams Center, Ansel Adams, a Legacy: Masterworks from the Friends of Photography Collection , March – June, 1997, and traveling thereafter to: Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, July – September 2010; Japan, Nihombashi, Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, March, 1999; Japan, Ehime Prefecture Museum, June – July 1999; Japan, Toyama Prefecture, Tonami City Museum, July – August 1999; Japan, Hokkaido, Kushiro Art Museum, September – October 1999; Japan, Kawasaki City Museum, October – December 1999; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, May – August 2000 Billings, Montana, Yellowstone Art Museum, Ansel Adams: a Legacy , October 2002 – January 2003 and traveling thereafter to: University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center, Ansel Adams: a Legacy , August 2005 – January 2006; Loretta and Ligonier, Pennsylvania, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, March – November 2006; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Institute of Art, May – August 2007; Tucson Museum of Art, October 2009 – February 2010; Cartersville, Georgia, Booth Western Art Museum, September 2010 – March 2011; Missoula, Montana, Missoula Art Museum, October 2011 – April 2012; Helena, Montana, The Holter Museum of Art, January – April 2013; Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia, The Fralin Museum of Art, June – October 2013; San Marcos, Texas, The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, June – December 2016 Literature Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light (San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1963), p. 19 Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963), unpaginated Liliane de Cock, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 95 Ansel Adams, The Camera (Boston, 1980), cover and fig. 11-1 Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 63 James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 20 Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 177 James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 63 James Alinder, ed., Light Years: The Friends of Photography, 1967-1987 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1987), cover Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), front leaf John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), fig. 9.1 Janet Swan Bush, ed., Trees (Boston, 2004), p. 7 Karen Haas and Rebecca Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 49 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), spine and p. 373 Andrea Gray Stillman , Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 200 Additional Notices & Disclaimers The photographs have been copyrighted by the Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, and the Trustees reserve all publishing right and copyrights as well as all rights to use the name, likeness, and persona of Ansel Adams for commercial purposes and that, other than for public display of the photographs themselves, the photographs may not be reproduced for any purpose or utilized in violation of such copyrights, nor may the name, likeness, or persona of Ansel Adams be utilized for any commercial or other purpose, without the expressed written consent of the Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.