The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (From Large Museum Set)

Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
1942 | Printed c. 1980
Gelatin silver print
Image Size: 15 x 19 1/4 inches
Frame Size: 26 3/8 x 30 5/8 inches
Location: Office 330 ~ Unique ID 303

Provenance

Acquired from Anne Adams Helms, 2016.

Literature

Classic Images pl. 32; Making a Photographer The Early Works of Ansel Adams, p. 202.

Print Notes

Grand Teton is a masterful photograph that draws the viewer's eye from the river in the foreground, around the bend to the snow-capped mountains of the Grand Teton, and up towards the brooding sky in the background. Adams's vivid landscape makes use of sharp focus and natural light to capture the true splendor of the National Parks. As Adams said of his vista: "The grand lift of the Tetons is more than a mechanistic fold and faulting of the earth's crust; it becomes a primal gesture of the earth beneath a greater sky."