Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine

Print Notes

Four known prints in this size. On four successive morning, Adams tried to take this photograph from the east side of the Sierra. On the fifth day, it was still dark and bitterly cold when he set up his camera on the new platform on top of his car and retreated to the warm interior. As dawn drew near, he returned to the camera to await the sun's first rays on the meadow. "I finally encountered the bright, glistening sunrise with light clouds streaming from the southeast and casting swift moving shadows on the meadow and dark rolling hills." At the last possible moment, the horse turned to offer a profile view. Many years later Adams wrote "Sometimes I think I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter!"

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Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
1944 | Printed c. 1955
Mural, gelatin silver print signed by Adams with a stylus on the print, lower right.
Images Size: 41 x 62 inches
Frame Size: 56 1/2 x 76 3/4 inches
Location: Miami ~ Unique ID 12

Provenance

Adams to [an unknown owner] to the Weston Gallery, Carmel; Mitsubishi Corporation, Japan 1988; Weston Gallery, 2000; private California collector 2000; purchased through Weston Gallery, 2004.

Literature

Ansel Adams: Classic Images, pl. 38; Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, p. 245; The Portfolios of Ansel Adams; Making a Photographer The Early Works of Ansel Adams, p. 201.