Ansel Adams
Cottonwood Trunks, Yosemite Valley, California

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Artist Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984)American, 1902–1984

CultureAmerican

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Cottonwood Trunks, Yosemite Valley, California

Date1932

Place depictedCalifornia, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 13/16 × 6 1/4 in. (22.4 × 15.9 cm)
Sheet: 8 13/16 × 6 1/4 in. (22.4 × 15.9 cm)
Mount: 19 × 14 in. (48.3 × 35.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.519

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceGift of Ansel Adams to the poet Robinson Jeffers, acquired by Margaret Weston from the Jeffers family and sold to Harry Lunn.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Lunn Ltd. on 7/14/1988.
Exhibition History"Ansel Adams" An American Place, New York, 1936; Museum of Modern Art, New York , 1982 (recreation of the 1936 exhibition);

"American Vision: Photographers from the West, Selections from the Manfred Heiting Collection purchased by the Brown Foundation for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from August 23-February 1, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in black, verso of mount, upper right: "In Yosemite Valley"

Inscribed in black, verso of mount, upper left: "For Robin and Una Jeffery / November 1932 / [signature]"

Signed in black, verso of mount, following an inscription: "Ansel Adams" and very lightly in pencil, recto of mount, beneath lower right of image/sheet.

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