Adams, Ansel
American (1902-1984)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Monolith, The Face of Half Dome
PUBLISHED TITLE: Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park
PORTFOLIO TITLE: A. Adams, Portfolio III: Yosemite Valley, San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1959, pl. 1

1927 / print ca. 1960
PUBLISHER: The Sierra Club, San Francisco
gelatin silver print
28.0 x 20.7 cm.
Museum Purchase
81:1018:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: 6632:1
NON-GEH NUMBER: 1

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Adams, Ansel. --Ansel Adams: Images 1923-1974.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. p. 35.//
Adams, Ansel. --The Portfolios of Ansel Adams.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1977. p. 41.//
Alinder, Mary S., ed. & Stillman, Andrea, ed. --Ansel Adams: Letters and Images: 1916-1984.-- Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1988. p. 31.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 645.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Photography In America 1850-1965", US, CT, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, October 13 - November 28, 1965.//
"Legend & Legacy: Ansel Adams and 19th-Century Landscape Photographers", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, July 18 - October 4, 1992.//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(signed in ink) "Ansel Adams" mount verso-(rubberstamp with red ink inscription) "Portfolio Three (Yosemite Valley) Ansel Adams Print No. 1 of Set No. 12 Published By The Sierra Club San Francisco 1959 Reproduction Rights Reserved" "Typography and Cases Completed in 1960" (in pencil) "1927"

NOTES: Title from --The Portfolios of Ansel Adams--. Dated "ca. 1926" in --The Portfolios of Ansel Adams--. Published title from --Ansel Adams: Images 1923-1974--. Text accompanying portfolio lists technique utilized and, is numbered (in black ink) as copy number "21" of 208 (200 for sale). Portfolio III is dedicated to Nancy and Beaumont Newhall. Catalogued 2/92, DZ.

SUBJECT: landscape, rock face / Half Dome