Ansel Adams
Interior of Tumacocori Mission, Arizona

Interior of Tumacocori Mission, Arizona

© The Ansel Adams Publishing Right Trust

Interior of Tumacocori Mission, Arizona
Interior of Tumacocori Mission, Arizona
ArtistAmerican, 1902–1984
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Interior of Tumacocori Mission, Arizona
  • from Portfolio VII
Datec. 1952
PlaceTumacocori Mission, Arizona, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 19 11/16 × 15 1/2 in. (50 × 39.4 cm)
Sheet: 19 11/16 × 15 1/2 in. (50 × 39.4 cm)
Mount: 29 × 23 in. (73.7 × 58.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Anthony G. Cronin Memorial Collection, gift of Roger Eichholz
Object number79.195
Not on view

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Department
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Description


Best known for his sharply focused and carefully composed vistas of the western United States, Ansel Adams was highly influential during the course of the 20th century in the development of a modernist photographic aesthetic and an exacting technical approach to making photographs. Taken at the Tumacacori National Historical Park in Arizona, Adam’s photograph of the interior of the Mission San José de Tumacácori is unusual within the artist’s oeuvre. The limited depth of the interior space compresses the picture plane with the painted motifs on the mission’s wall and areas of deep shadow to create a flattening effect verging on abstraction.



ProvenanceRoger Eichholz; given to MFAH, 1979.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed, recto, below image on left side: VII-7 19/115
Signed, recto, below photograph on righthand side: Ansel Adams

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