Mount Galen Clark, Yosemite Park
1927
Medium
gelatin silver (parmelian) print
Dimensions
image: 20.3 x 15.2 cm (8 x 6 in.) sheet: 30.1 x 25.1 cm (11 7/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Margaret W. Weston
Accession Number
1991.112.2
Art Historical Context
Behold *Mount Galen Clark, Yosemite* (1927), a captivating gelatin silver (parmelian) print by Ansel Adams, one of America's most revered photographers. Capturing the rugged grandeur of the Sierra Nevada peak named after Galen Clark—Yosemite's first official guardian—this intimate 8 x 6-inch image exemplifies Adams' lifelong devotion to the Yosemite Valley, a place he first visited as a boy in 1916 and later helped preserve. Created early in Adams' career, this work reflects his experimental phase with pictorialist techniques, where the parmelian process—a soft-focus transfer method—lends a d...
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...