Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, Sequoia National Park, California
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United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Signed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Ansel Adams"; stamped and inscribed verso, on mount, upper center, in black ink: "Photograph by Ansel Adams / Museum Set Edition / Route 1 Box 181 Carmel, California 93923 [stamped] / Frozen Lake and Cliffs / Sierra Nevada, California [inscribed] / Negative made [stamped] 1932 [inscribed] Print made [stamped] 1980 [inscribed] / Identification number [stamped] 810 [inscribed]"
NY, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars,” September 22-December 31, 1989; traveled to San Franciso Museum of Modern Art, February 28-April 22, 1990; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 10-July 15, 1990; Art Institute of Chicago, September 15- December 1, 1990; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, February 5-April 28, 1991; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 8-August 4, 1991.
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, “Conserving Photographs,” November 21–April 28, 2019. (Sylvie Penichon) (Gallery 10)
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