The Ansel Adams Gallery exhibition sale of of the "Mercer River, Snow, From Columbia Point" by Ansel Adams

"MERCED RIVER, SNOW, FROM COLUMBIA POINT" Original Gelatin Silver Photograph by Ansel Adams We are pleased to present a remarkable photograph that offers something exceedingly rare: the chance to witness a great artist in the act of becoming. "Merced River, Snow, from Columbia Point," captures the Yosemite Valley in winter from a contemplative distance. Snow softens the landscape, edges dissolve, and the scene hovers in quietude—as though the valley itself were holding its breath. READ MORE ABOUT THE IMAGE Merced River, Snow, from Columbia Point Original Gelatin Silver Photograph by Ansel Adams Negative Date: 1923 | Print Date: ca. 1926-28 6 x 8″ | Pristine Condition Signed “Ansel E Adams” with flourish INQUIRE What makes this print extraordinary is not merely its subject, but its moment in time. Created around 1920, when Ansel Adams was still finding his way as an artist, the photograph employs a soft-focus aesthetic worlds away from the sharply articulated images that would later define his work. This is the only soft-focus print of this image the Gallery has ever encountered. Here, under the influence of Pictorialism, the young photographer allows the landscape to remain elusive rather than precisely described. The river becomes a dark ribbon, the snow a veil, the valley a study in tonal quiet. Yet even in this youthful work, something unmistakable emerges: the composition is deliberate, the balance between dark and light carefully considered, the landscape both closely observed and deeply felt. "Ansel Adams in Merced River Canyon," ca. 1920's. Photograph courtesy of the Adams' Family Archives, An example of the later "sharp-focused" style in which Ansel would print "Merced River, Snow, from Columbia Point," 1923. Copyright of The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. This photograph dates to a period before Adams had taken up photography as his professional calling—a time of beginning, with the future still unknown. It offers not a finished vision, but something quieter and rarer: the portrait of an artist learning how to see.  For inquiries please contact the Director of Photography Sales, Brittany Moorefield, at originals@anseladams.com or call (857) 523-8100.

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The Haines Gallery: Ansel Adams in Our Time with Binh Danh, Chris McCaw, and Meghann Riepenhoff, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA April 8 - July 23, 2023

Binh Danh, Lower Yosemite Fall, 2016 Collection of MFA Boston

Ansel Adams in Our Time with Binh Danh, Chris McCaw, and Meghann Riepenhoff

de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA April 8 - July 23, 2023

Binh Danh, Chris McCaw, and Meghann Riepenhoff are included in Ansel Adams in Our Time, opening at the de Young Museum on April 8. Ansel Adams in Our Time places the work of photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams in dialogue with the photographers who influenced him, as well as 23 contemporary artists whose practices engage anew with the sites and subjects that occupied Adams throughout his life—from national parks to the use and misuse of natural resources. Adams’s legacy continues to inspire and provoke, influencing how we envision the landscape and serving as an urgent call to preserve our environment. Visit the Exhibition Ansel Adams in Our Time was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The exhibition was curated by Karen Haas, Lane Senior Curator of Photographs, MFA Boston; and has traveled to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2020-21); and Portland Museum of Art, OR (2021).

Contemporary Artists Panel: Binh Danh, Lucas Foglia, and Meghann Riepenhoff

Koret Auditorium at the de Young Saturday, April 8 at 1pm

Join featured exhibition artists Binh Danh, Lucas Foglia, and Meghann Riepenhoff for a panel conversation about their photography practice and process, facilitated by Karen Haas, Lane Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The event is free with unassigned seating. Tickets available on a first-come first-served basis in front of the Auditorium an hour before the conversation begins. Artist book signings will follow the panel. Learn More

Chris McCaw, Sunburned GSP #945 (Every time the sun came out, Wyoming), 2017; Meghann Riepenhoff, Ice #326 (27-47℉, Confluence of Shel Chelb Ephemeral Stream and Puget Sound, WA 02.25.22), 2022

Elemental John Chiara, Binh Danh, Chris McCaw, Meghann Riepenhoff

Haines Gallery Opening Reception: Friday, April 7 from 5pm to 7pm

Timed to coincide with Ansel Adams in Our Time, Haines Gallery's newest exhibition Elemental features works by John Chiara, Binh Danh, Chris McCaw, and Meghann Riepenhoff, each of whom creates works directly within the landscape and in collaboration with the forces of nature. Learn More

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