Ansel Adams

oversized, mounted, signed by the photographer in pencil on the mount, his Carmel studio stamp, titled and dated in an unidentified hand in ink, on the reverse, matted, framed, 1941, printed 1975-77

Other prints of this image:

Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 37

Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 63

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 2002), p. 40

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 96

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), frontispiece

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 32

Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (New York, 2007), p. 175

This beautiful large print, with a wide range of warm tones and great detail in the foreground, is in generally excellent condition.
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In 1975, the dealer Harry Lunn, Jr., then operating under the name of Graphics International Ltd., commissioned Ansel Adams to print three of his most famous images in large format: 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico,' 'Winter Sunrise,' and 'The Tetons and Snake River.'  Each was to be printed in an edition of 20, with 5 artist's proofs, using 20 by 24-inch paper.  The printing of the editions began in 1975, and was expected to be finished by 1977 (cf. Lunn Gallery/Graphics International Ltd., Catalogue 5: 19^th and 20^th Century Photographs, Washington, D. C., 1976, pp. 161-63).  The print of 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico' offered here is from this large-format edition.