Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada (From Small Museum Set)

Print Notes

On four successive mornings, 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. “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 1980
Gelatin silver print signed by Ansel Adams in pencil on the mount, the Museum Set Edition stamp, numbered "455" in an unidentified hand, on the back.
Image Size: 14 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches
Location: Rye ~ Unique ID 215

Provenance

Purchased from the Virginia Adams Charitable Trust, through Weston Gallery.

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.