Ansel Adams

The Estate of the photographer to The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984

Acquired from the above, 2002

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 and the National Parks, June – September 1992

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 1997; Louisville, Kentucky, J. B. Speed Museum, September – November 1998; 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; Norwich, Vermont, Montshire Museum of Science, August – October 2000; Fayetteville, North Carolina, Fayetteville Museum of Art, January – March 2001; Lufkin, Texas, Museum of East Texas, July – August 2001

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; 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

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 289

In 1946, Adams received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship that enabled him to continue the work he had started under the auspices of the Department of the Interior for the Mural Project in 1941-42 (see Lot 45).  The photograph offered here was made with funds from the fellowship in 1947, while traveling with his young son Michael, then fourteen, to Alaska. This project grew into the 1950 publication My Camera in the National Parks (Yosemite and Boston, 1950) and Portfolio II: The National Parks and Monuments (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1950).  

As of this writing, no other prints of this image are believed to have been offered at auction.