The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska
1947, printed in or before 1979
(American, 1902–1984)
Image: 38.8 x 48.8 cm (15 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.); Mounted: 55.6 x 70.8 cm (21 7/8 x 27 7/8 in.)
Gift of Lynn Schreiber 2011.219
© Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Ansel Adams shot this photograph in July 1947 at around 1:30 a.m., which is sunrise in that part of Alaska in midsummer.Description
Because of Adams's choice of time and framing, the mountain floats majestically above still-dark plains, inspiring awe in nature and respect for the grand scale of the American continent. Taken in a national park that few had visited at that point, this image and others made by Adams on that trip helped inspire Alaskan tourism and furthered the territory’s battle to gain statehood.- Tannenbaum, Barbara. “From Long Shot to Close-up: A brief history of the photography collection.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 63, no. 1 (2023): 30-33. Reproduced: P. 30 archive.org
- Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).Ansel Adams: A Photographer’s Evolution. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 16, 2018).
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