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Open today 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Admission is always free

6th and Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20565

Sculpture Garden Extended Hours

Open late until 8:00 p.m. on select nights
Through September 5
Exhibitions & Events
America’s 250th

Celebrating American art and artists
Art & Artists
Open Call

Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

1942, printed 1980

Ansel Adams

Associated Names

Ansel Adams

Artist, American, 1902 - 1984

We look down into a darkened valley with a shimmering, curving river winding back to a screen of craggy, snow-topped mountains in the distance in this horizontal black and white photograph.

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G24

Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Gift of Virginia B. Adams
Dimensions

overall: 48.3 x 39 cm (19 x 15 3/8 in.)
Accession Number

1986.3.5
Series Title

Museum Set

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Adams, Ansel, Mrs.

Bibliography

1974

Images 1974, 69.

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: 35.

Inscriptions

lower right on mount in graphite: Ansel Adams

Wikidata ID

Q64144820

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