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A tall, almost sheer rock formation soaring high above snow-capped rocky peaks nearly fills this vertical black and white photograph. The rock formation is rounded along the top and continues off the top right corner and right edge of the composition. A jagged ridge dips down like a narrow wing to our left, and tall trees on the mountain peaks are made minuscule by the formation, the surface of which is textured with long vertical streaks. The sky in the upper left corner of the photograph is steely gray behind a thin ridge of white snow along the curved top of the formation.

Ansel Adams

Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1927, printed 1980

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series Title

Museum Set

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

overall: 49.1 × 36.8 cm (19 5/16 × 14 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Virginia B. Adams

Accession Number

1986.3.2

Artists / Makers

Ansel Adams (artist) American, 1902 - 1984

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Inscription

lower right on mount in graphite: Ansel Adams

Provenance

Virginia B. Adams, Carmel, CA; gift to NGA, 1986.

Associated Names

Adams, Ansel, Mrs.

Exhibition History

2009: In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009 - 2010, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1974: Images 1974, 35.

1985: Alinder, James, and Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. Ansel Adams: Classic Images, The Museum Set. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Boston, 1985: 2.