Half Dome, Merced River, Winter, Yosemite Valley, ca. 1938, printed between 1963 and 1971

  • Ansel Adams, American, 1902-1984

Gelatin silver print

  • Image: 15 1/8 × 19 1/2 inches (38.4 × 49.5 cm) Mount: 22 × 28 inches (55.9 × 71.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund

71.116

Signed in black pen and ink, lower right, on mount: Ansel Adams.

In black ink, stamped, on verso of mount, upper center: PHOTOGRAPH | BY | ANSEL ADAMS | ROUTE 1, BOX 181 | CARMEL, CALIFORNIA | TITLE Half Dome, Merced River, Winter, Yosemite Valley [handwritten in pen, underscored] | CREDIT: | DATE, FILM.

1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, April 27, 1980, p. 11 (ill.).

Ansel Adams, Half Dome, Merced River, Winter, Yosemite Valley, ca. 1938, printed between 1963 and 1971, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 71.116.