Ansel Adams: Early Works focuses on the masterful small-scale prints made by Adams from the 1920s into the 1950s. In this time period Adams’ technique evolved from the soft-focus, warm-toned, painterly “Parmelian prints” of the 1920s; through the f/64 school of sharp-focused photography that he co-founded with Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham in the 1930s; and, after the War, towards a cooler, higher-contrast printmaking approach.
Several singular examples are included in this exhibition including an extraordinarily rare print of Moonrise, Hernandez. It is one of the earliest extant – with its light gray (rather than deep black) sky with wispy clouds, it is almost “day and night” when compared to his much more common, much darker, printings from the 1970s and 1980s.
The exhibition is sponsored in part by The Morgan McReynolds Group at Morgan Stanley. Support also provided by a Market NY grant through I LOVE NY/NewYork State’s Division of Tourism as a part of the Regional Economic Development Council awards.
Ansel Adams
Early Works
April 1 – September 18, 2016
Fenimore Art Museum
55798 State Highway 80 Cooperstown, NY 13326
www.fenimoreartmuseum.org
© Ansel Adams
© Ansel Adams
© Ansel Adams
© Ansel Adams
