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The Black Sun, Tungsten Hills, Owens Valley, California

1939 (printed late 1960s)

Ansel Adams

(American, 1902–1984)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 34.8 x 46.8 cm (13 11/16 x 18 7/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
Wishing Well Fund 1973.119
© Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
Location: Not on view
  • “The Year in Review for 1973.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31–78. Reproduced: p. 55; Mentioned: p. 77, no. 135 www.jstor.org
    Hinson, Tom E. “Photography: Recent Acquisitions.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 2 (February 1975): 36–46. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 41, fig. 5 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 258 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 74
  • Ansel Adams: A Photographer’s Evolution. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 16, 2018).
    CMA, October 15, 1993 - January 9, 1994: "Ansel Adams from the Permanent Collection," no exhibition catalogue.
    Cleveland, The Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, 1979: "Selections of Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art."
    CMA 1974: "Year in Review 1973," CMA Bulletin LXI (February 1974) no. 135, p. 77, repr. p. 55).
    Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).
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