Boards and Thistles

1932

Ansel Adams

Associated Names
Ansel Adams

Artist, American, 1902 - 1984

The image displays a wooden structure with vertical planks and angled horizontal beams, accompanied by rough-leaved plants below. The color palette is primarily brown and gray. The vertical planks are intersected by two diagonal beams, with foliage growing at the base of the structure.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Stephen G. Stein

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 23.5 × 16.6 cm (9 1/4 × 6 9/16 in.)
    mount: 45.1 × 35.1 cm (17 3/4 × 13 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2020.29.84

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Collection of Georgia O'Keeffe, Abiquiú, NM; Dorothy Norman, Boston; (Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA); Private collection; (Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco); Stephen G. Stein, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2020.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right below image in graphite: Ansel Adams; on verso, signed by artist, center in graphite underlined: Ansel Adams; upper center: Board and Thistles

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