Ansel Adams Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park 1927 Gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1951. 8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2 cm) Signed in pencil on the mount; titled, dated '1926' in an unidentified hand in ink and '131-24th Avenue San Francisco' credit stamp on the reverse of the mount; 'The Art Institute of Chicago' collection label affixed to the reverse of the mount.
Provenance Purchased from the photographer, 1952 Exhibited Photographs by Ansel Adams The Art Institute of Chicago, 20 November 1951- 5 January 1952 Literature Adams, Ansel Adams 400 Photographs, cover and p. 35 Alinder and Szarkowski, Ansel Adams Classic Images, pl. 2 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ansel Adams The Early Years, pls. 6-7 Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams pl. 1 Catalogue Essay Other prints of this image are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson. Read More
Ansel Adams Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park 1927 Gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1951. 8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2 cm) Signed in pencil on the mount; titled, dated '1926' in an unidentified hand in ink and '131-24th Avenue San Francisco' credit stamp on the reverse of the mount; 'The Art Institute of Chicago' collection label affixed to the reverse of the mount.
Provenance Purchased from the photographer, 1952 Exhibited Photographs by Ansel Adams The Art Institute of Chicago, 20 November 1951- 5 January 1952 Literature Adams, Ansel Adams 400 Photographs, cover and p. 35 Alinder and Szarkowski, Ansel Adams Classic Images, pl. 2 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ansel Adams The Early Years, pls. 6-7 Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams pl. 1 Catalogue Essay Other prints of this image are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson. Read More
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