Tenaya Creek, Dowgood, Rain, Yosemite Valley
Artist
Ansel Adams
(American, 1902-1984)
CultureAmerican
Datec. 1948
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 15 1/8 × 19 3/8 in. (38.4 × 49.2 cm)
Overall, Support: 21 7/8 × 26 5/8 in. (55.6 × 67.6 cm)
Overall, Frame: 24 × 28 in. (61 × 71.1 cm)
Overall, Support: 21 7/8 × 26 5/8 in. (55.6 × 67.6 cm)
Overall, Frame: 24 × 28 in. (61 × 71.1 cm)
Signedsigned in pencil, lower right corner of mat: "Ansel Adams"
PortfolioMuseum Set Edition
Credit LineGift of Selina and Tom Stokes
Object number2016.33.2
Not on view
Label TextAnsel Adams
American, 1902–1984
Tenaya Creek, Dogwood, Rain, Yosemite Valley, ca. 1948
Gelatin silver print, 1980
Although Adams is widely recognized as a nature photographer, we might also call him a photographer of light. As art critic John Szarkowski wrote, “Ansel Adams attuned himself more precisely than any photographer before him to a visual understanding of the specific quality of the light that fell on a specific place at a specific moment. For Adams the natural landscape is not a fixed and solid sculpture but an insubstantial image, as transient as the light that continually redefines it.”
Gift of Selina and Tom Stokes 2016.33.2
ProvenanceThe artist, Carmel, California; printed 1980 as part of a Museum Set Edition
Dr. and Mrs. T. Lane Stokes, Norfolk, Virginia, acquired from the artist’s studio, March 12, 1981
Tom and Selina Stokes, Norfolk, Virginia, October 1981 to present
Exhibition History"From Ansel Adams to Infinity," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, September 21, 2018 - January 27, 2019.There are no works to discover for this record.