Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine (From Large Museum Set)

Print Notes

Four known prints in this size. 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 c. 1980
Gelatin silver print
Images Size: 16 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 26 3/8 x 30 5/8 inches
Location: AAP ~ Unique ID 311

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

Acquired from Anne Adams Helms, 2016.