Classic Photographs

ANSEL ADAMS | CLEARING WINTER STORM, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA

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ANSEL ADAMS

1902-1984

CLEARING WINTER STORM, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA

gelatin silver print, mounted to Crescent illustration board, signed and inscribed 'For the Kleins' in pencil on the mount, circa 1937, printed in the late 1930s or early 1940s

image: 15⅝ by 19¼ in. (39.7 by 48.9 cm.)

The photographer to Bob Klein, employee of Yosemite Park & Curry Company

Private collection

Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 1994

By descent to the present owner

Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 71

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 49

Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), cover

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 102

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 46

Andrea G. Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), pl. 1

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (Boston, 2001), p. 89

Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 123

Gainesville, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Ansel Adams: Visualizing the American Landscape, May - August 2004

Gainesville, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Aura of the Photograph: The Image as Object, March - May 2006