Aspens, Northern New Mexico
Ansel Easton Adams, American, 1902 - 1984
negative 1958; print 1963-1973
Gelatin silver print
Frame: 25 1/4 × 31 1/4 in. (64.1 × 79.4 cm)
Sheet: 55 × 76 3/4 in. (139.7 × 194.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased in memory of Edward A. Hansen, Member of the Board of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, with gifts from his wife Julia, his children, Victoria, Class of 1988 and Christopher, Class of 1985, and friends
© 2013 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
2013.6
Geography
Place Imaged: United States, North America
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, on reverse of mount; and titled in ink and stamped on verso using the Carmel studio stamp
Label
Celebrated photographer Ansel Adams here depicts an aspen forest during autumn in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Silhouetted against the murky depths of a forest interior, the leaves of this young aspen tree glow with reflected light. Unlike most deciduous trees, aspen stands are a clonal colony rather than a group of individual specimens. United by a shared root structure, an aspen grove constitutes a single massive organism that can live for tens of thousands of years.
From the 2022 exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, curated by Jami C. Powell, Curator of Indigenous Art; Barbara J. MacAdam, former Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art; Thomas H. Price, former Curatorial Assistant; Morgan E. Freeman, former DAMLI Native American Art Fellow; and Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art
Course History
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Winter 2015
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.
Published References
Andrea G. Stillman, editor, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, 2007, Boston, Little Brown, cover and p. 375; John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco, SFMOMA, 2001, cover of hardcover, pp. 104-5; Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Boston, Little Brown, 1989, p. 116
Provenance
The artist; sold to a private dealer, California, date unknown; sold to private collector, date unknown, on consignment with Alan Klotz Gallery, New York; sold to present collection, 2013.
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