Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley, California
1944, printed later
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 39.5 × 48.7 cm (15 9/16 × 19 3/16 in.) mount: 56 × 71 cm (22 1/16 × 27 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Powell, III
Accession Number
2013.150.2
About the Artist
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams, born on February 20, 1902, in San Francisco, California, grew up as the only child of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman and astronomy enthusiast who tutored him at home, and Olive Bray, with whom he had a distant relationship. A hyperactive child prone to illness, Adams struggled in formal schooling and was educated by private tutors and his father until graduating from eighth gr...