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Signed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: Ansel Adams; stamped and inscribed verso, on mount, center, in black and red ink: PORTFOLIO THREE / (Yosemite Valley) / ANSEL ADAMS / PRINT NO. [stamped in black ink] 9 [inscribed in red ink] of SET NO. [stamped in black ink] 81 [inscribed in red ink] / Published by / THE SIERRA CLUB / SAN FRANCISCO / 1959 / Reproduction Rights Reserved [stamped in black ink]
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Earth As It Was: Photographs by Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and William Clift,” May 5 - September 3, 2007. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Wilds of the West,” June 28, 2003 - Oct. 13, 2003 (CW)
New York, NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, “The American Century: Art and Culture” April 22 - August 22, 1999.
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