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Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska
1947, printed in or before 1979
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984)
Photography
Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, 1947, printed in or before 1979. Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). Gelatin silver print; image: 38.8 x 48.8 cm (15 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.); mounted: 55.6 x 70.8 cm (21 7/8 x 27 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn Schreiber 2011.219 © Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust Because of Adams's choice of time and framing, the mountain floats majestically above still-dark plains, inspiring awe in nature and respect for the grand scale of the American continent. Taken in a national park that few had visited at that point, this image and others made by Adams on that trip helped inspire Alaskan tourism and furthered the territory’s battle to gain statehood. Ansel Adams shot this photograph in July 1947 at around 1:30 a.m., which is sunrise in that part of Alaska in midsummer.
- Maker/Artist
- Adams, Ansel
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 38.8 x 48.8 cm (15 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.); Mounted: 55.6 x 70.8 cm (21 7/8 x 27 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount: "Ansel Adams (signed)" Stamped in black ink and filled in with fine black marker on verso of mount: "Photograph by Ansel Adams/Mt.McKinley and Wonderlake/Mt.McKinley National Park, Alaska 1947/Route I Box 181 Carmel, California 93921"
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 2011.219
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lynn Schreiber
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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