Ansel Adams and Jean Chambers Moore
Monolith: The Face of Half Dome
1926
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Platinum print, Sheet: 301 x 251 mm. (30.1 x 25.1 cm.)
Image: 203 x 151 mm. (20.3 x 15.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.212.3
Pace/MacGill, New York
Ansel Adams, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1979, ill., pl. 54. Karen E. Quinn and Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Ansel Adams: The Early Years, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1991, p. 43, ill., pl. 6. John Szarkowski intro., The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1992, ill., III/pl. 1.
Inscribed: FACE: BCtr (printed in black ink) 'MONOLITH: THE FACE OF HALF DOME'; LR below image (graphite) 'A E Adams'; FOLDER FACE: UC 'MONOLITH:/THE FACE OF THE HALF DOME/Yosemite Valley'.
