A black-and-white landscape photograph of a town with mountains in the background and the moon rising above the clouds in the night sky.

Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico

Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

Date

1941, printed 1965
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Contributors

Printed by Ansel Adams
Dimensions

Image: 15 1/16 x 19 3/16 in.
Mount: 21 15/16 x 25 1/8 in.
Inscriptions

Mount Recto::
l.r. signed in ink: Ansel Adams
Mount Verso:
in ink: 4483
[stamp]: PHOTOGRAPH \ BY \ ANSEL ADAMS \ ROUTE 1, BOX 181 \ CARMEL, CALIFORNIA \ TITLE Moonrise over Hernandez [in ink] \ N.M. [in ink] \ NEGATIVE NO. ___ \ CREDIT ___
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

P1965.41
Copyright

© Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust

Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light

May 29–November 7, 2010

Drawn from the Carter’s holdings and a private collection, this exhibition highlighted Adams’s quest to “rekindle an appreciation of the marvelous” through his masterful depictions of the West in the romantic tradition of the American landscape.

Location: Off view

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