Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California

Print Notes

Very rare large-scale mural. Adams took the picture just as a rain turned snow storm was beginning to clear away. He explained that his viewpoint had been motivated in part by the landscape and it remains his most iconic landscape of Yosemite.

Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
1944 | Printed c. 1969
Mural, gelatin silver print signed by Adams in pencil on the front of mount.
Image Size: 33 3/4 x 40 1/2 inches
Frame Size: 54 1/2 x 60 3/4 inches
Location: Miami ~ Unique ID 13

Provenance

Ansel Adams to [an unknown owner] to Craig MacFarland of Carmel; purchased through Weston Gallery, Carmel 2004.

Literature

Yosemite and the Range of Light, cover; Classic Images, pl. 46.