A black-and-white photograph of a canyon between two large mountains.

Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

Date

1947, printed 1975
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 15 1/16 x 18 15/16 in.
Mount: 21 15/16 x 27 1/2 in.
Inscriptions

Mount Recto:
l.r. signed in graphite: Ansel Adams
Mount, Verso:
c. [stamp]: Photograph by Ansel Adams \ Route 1 Box 181 Carmel, California 93921
c. [stamp]: Santa Elena Canyon \ Big Bend National Park, Texas
Credit Line

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

P1975.118.4
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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