Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (From Large Museum Set)

Print Notes

This image was made at 4:05pm MST, on October 31, 1941 , Halloween. In the original version of the image, which captures a moon rising over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains sprawled over Northern New Mexico, the sky is noticeably more even, light and flat. It is believed that between 1941 and 1948 Adams made only 10 prints from the 8 x 10” view camera that show the original tonality of the composition.

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Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
1941 | Printed c. 1980
Gelatin silver print
Image Size: 16 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 26 5/16 x 29 9/16 inches
Location: AAP ~ Unique ID 276

Provenance

Acquired from Anne Adams Helms, 2016.

Literature

Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, p. 171 and 420-421; In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West, p. 173; Ansel Adams: Examples, The Making of 40 Photographs, pp. 40-43; Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 63; Ansel Adams: Classic Images, pl. 32; Ansel Adams: Images 1923-1974, p. 47; Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, pl. 37, p. 68; Ansel Adams at 100, pl. 96; Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, p. 274; Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, p. 142; Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest, frontispiece illustration; Ansel Adams: Photographs of the Southwest, pl. 55; Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, pp. 114, 118, 119 and 121; Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, fig. 4.10, p. 94; Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1974 (Untitled 37, The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 55; Making a Photographer The Early Works of Ansel Adams, p. 215 et al.