Details
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1980
signed in pencil (mount, recto); stamped photographer's Carmel credit [BMFA I] with title, date of image and of print in ink (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 15 x 19 1/2 in. (38 x 49.4 cm.)
mount: 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm.)
Provenance
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1980s.
Literature
Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest, New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1966, pl. 55.
Liliane De Cock (ed.), Ansel Adams, Morgan & Morgan, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 1972, pl. 63.
Robert M. Doty, Photography in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1974, pp. 130-131.
Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection, Fort Worth, 1982, pl. 125.
James Alinder, Ansel Adams, 1902-1984, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984, p. 55.
Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 142.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., 1989, cover, p. 40.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Little, Brown and Co., Tokyo, 1999, pl. 32.
Andrea Stillman, Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest, Little Brown and Co., Boston, 2000, frontispiece.
Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Taschen, Cologne, 2000, p. 643.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 96.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams, Divine Performance, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, p. 94, Fig. 4.10.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pl. 37.
Andrea Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2007, p. 175.
Exhibited
Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, An American Portrait: Photographs from the Collection of Diann and Thomas Mann, April 1–June 12, 1994, no. 81.

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