Evening Clouds and Pool, East Side of the Sierra Nevada from the Owens Valley, California
c. 1962, printed 1980
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
overall: 49.5 x 38.7 cm (19 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Virginia B. Adams
Accession Number
1986.3.60
Art Historical Context
Ansel Adams, a master of black-and-white landscape photography and co-founder of the f/64 Group, captured the sublime beauty of the American West in *Evening Clouds and Pool, East Side of the Sierra Nevada the Owens Valley, California* around 1962. This gelatin silver print, made in 1980, depicts a dramatic evening scene: ethereal clouds drifting above a reflective pool in the arid Owens Valley, with the jagged east face of the Sierra Nevada mountains rising majestically in the distance. Adams' lifelong passion for Yosemite and the Sierras shines through, transforming a momentary atmospheric i...
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...