Merced River, Cliffs, Autumn, Yosemite National Park, California
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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 ink: "Photograph by Ansel Adams / Museum Set Edition / Route 1 Box 181 Carmel, California 93923 [stamped] / Merced River, Cliffs, Autumn / Yosemite Valley, California [inscribed] / Negative made [stamped] c. 1939 [inscribed] Print made [stamped] 1980 [inscribed] / Identification number [stamped] 2058 [inscribed]"
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Measure of Nature: Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection,: May30-September 7, 1998.
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)
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