The Ski House at Badger Pass, Yosemite National Park, CA

Print Notes

A ski resort built inside a national park — and the photograph made to sell it. In the winter of 1935 the Yosemite Park & Curry Company opened a ski lodge at Badger Pass and put Ansel Adams to work photographing it. This view — published as The Ski House at Badger Pass — is early, working Adams: made for the park, not the gallery wall, at the moment California's first alpine ski resort was invented.

Description

Ansel Adams
1933 - 2024
c. 1935
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Image Size: 8 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches
Frame Size: 19 9/16 x 17 3/8 inches
Location: AAP ~ Unique ID 623

Provenance

Ansel Adams to The Four Seasons in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Park & Curry Company, ed. Stanley Plumb · 1936 for publication to Examiner c. 1937 — dated by the Examiner accession, supported by analysis of the paper's texture to San Francisco Examiner Reference library - received Feb 17, 1937 · with a group of related Yosemite prints, Acquired from a Private collection, California 2025 acquired through Seagrave Gallery.