Adams, Ansel
American (1902-1984)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Surf Sequence III, California Coast

ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
20.2 x 24.5 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 37717
72:0065:0020

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 1.1952 / 85

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Adams, Ansel. --Ansel Adams: Images 1923-1974.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. p. 84-85.//
Adams, Ansel. --Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs.-- Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1983. p. 22.//
Adams, Ansel. --Ansel Adams: An Autobiography.-- Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1985. p. 199.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 644.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"On Time in Photographs", US, NY, Rochester, UR/Wilson Commons - Hartnett Gallery, January 10 - February 6, 1988.//
"Legend & Legacy: Ansel Adams and 19th-Century Landscape Photographers", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, July 18 - October 4, 1992.//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in pencil) "III" (signed) "Ansel Adams" mount verso-(rubberstamp) "Photograph by Ansel Adams Route 1, Box 181 Carmel, California" (printed label with ink inscription) "Photograph by Ansel Adams No.____ Neg No.____ Surf Sequence III California Coast" (in pencil) "85 (circled)-B" "1.1952" "22c" (printed label) "85"

NOTES: Dated "1940" in --Ansel Adams: An Autobiography--. Geographic location represented from --Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs-- p. 23. Technique listed in --Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs-- p. 24. Catalogued 2/92, MMD.

SUBJECTS:
seascape, surf
study, waves
landscape, shoreline