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Ansel Adams

[American Photographer, 1902-1984]

• Also known as:  Ansel Easton Adams
• Subject matter:  Specializes in the American West.
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There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
- Ansel Adams

 


 
    Ansel Adams Works Online    
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Commercial Galleries:  Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Ansel Adams available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Notable SiteCalifornia Museum of Photography at U.C. Riverside
Ansel Adams/Fiat Lux Database

Notable SiteAnsel Adams at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Exhibition: Ansel Adams

Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Notable SiteMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Notable SiteMetropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Cottonwood Trunks, Yosemite Valley, California, 1932

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Photograph collection online

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

Notable SiteNorton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Notable SiteSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Notable SiteAnsel Adams at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Akron Art Museum, Ohio   NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Moonrise over Hernandez, N.M.

Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio   NEW!
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Aspens, New Mexico, 1958

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, WY, 1942

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina
Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska

Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago
Note the link at the bottom of the page to all works in their collection by Ansel Adams

National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Untitled - O'Keeffe and Tree, 1938

New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Rockford Art Museum, Illinois

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Barn, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona

U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment during World War II

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Bridalveil Fall, ca.1952-54

William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut

 
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

Masters of Photography

USC Annenberg School for Communication

Additional Image Search Tools:
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           Flickr: "Ansel Adams"   
 
Google Images: "Ansel Adams"   
 
Bing Images: "Ansel Adams"   
 
 
Miscellaneous Sites:
AnalisisFotografia (in Spanish)  

Photography @ Temple University Online

The History Place
25 photographs: "The Best of Ansel Adams"

 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia Britannica complete article on Ansel Adams  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Notable SiteWikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Artnet Magazine
Evening Clouds and Pool, East Side of the Sierra Nevada, from the Owens Valley, California, 1962

PhotoQuotes

Resource Library Magazine
In Praise of Nature exhibit (Portland Museum of Art)

Resource Library Magazine
In Praise of Nature exhibit (Orlando Museum of Art)

Resource Library Magazine
Ansel Adams Photographs

Resource Library Magazine
Arizona Highways: Celebrating the Tradition

Suite101
Ansel Adams - Leader in the Art of Conservation

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"The sordid and the sublime", 2002 review by Adrian Searle

 
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals
"20th-Century Ansel Adams Portfolio"

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Ansel Adams at 100

The BBC
Audio selections from an interview with the photographer


"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books:Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.            
Search Inside Books:Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.
 
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Americas Wilderness: The Photographs of Ansel Adams


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Ansel Adams: Trees


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Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography


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Ansel Adams: A Biography


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Portfolios of Ansel Adams


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Ansel Adams: An Autobiography


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Ansel Adams: Classic Images


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Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs


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The American Wilderness


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Ansel Adams: Our National Parks


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The Ansel Adams Guide, Book 2


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Yosemite and the High Sierra


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The Camera


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The Negative


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The Print


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California: With Classic California Writings


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Ansel Adams at 100


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The Ansel Adams Guide, Book 1


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Ansel Adams at 100: A Postcard Folio Book


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The Grand Canyon and the Southwest


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Ansel Adams: Letters, 1916-1984


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Ansel Adams: The National Park Service Photographs


 
 
 
 
 
 
 



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