Object Record
Images
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Artist |
Adams, Ansel |
Title |
Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee |
Medium |
photographic print |
Date |
1948 |
Description |
Ansel Adams (San Francisco, California 1902-1984 Carmel, California) Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, 1948 Gelatin silver print; printed circa 1970-76 19 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (image) Knoxville Museum of Art, 2009 gift of Patricia and Alan Rutenberg and Mary Ellen and Steve Brewington Adams is widely considered to be America's greatest landscape photographer. He is best known for his timeless black and white images of Yosemite National Park and other natural wonders of the American West. Few are aware that Adams traveled to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1948-his first and only recorded visit to Tennessee-in order take photographs as part of a Guggenheim Fellowship on America's national parks and monuments. Evidence suggests Adams discovered the Smokies to be an intimidating subject. In a letter of October 9, 1948, the artist confides "The Smokys [sic] are OK in their way, but they are going to be devilish hard to photograph..." Adams only published four images from his visit, and prints of these are exceedingly rare. |
Catalog Number |
2009.09.01 |
Search Terms |
Silver gelatin prints Gelatin silver prints Photographs Black & white photographs Trees Prints |
Credit line |
Gift of Patricia and Alan Rutenberg and Mary Ellen and Steve Brewington |