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Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona (Primary Title)
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona (Alternate Title)

Ansel Adams, American, 1902–1984 (Artist)

1942, probably printed 1973–75
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print
Photography
Mount: 21 7/8 × 25 1/2 in. (55.56 × 64.77 cm)
Image: 15 7/16 × 19 7/16 in. (39.21 × 49.37 cm)
75.29.4
Not on view
dry-mounted
Signed by the photographer in graphite below image right on mount: " Ansel Adams".
Photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA Stamp 11) in black ink, with title inscribed possibly by one of the photographer's assistants in graphite when noted in single quotations, on mount verso: "Photograph By Ansel Adams/ 'Canyon de Chelly' / 'Arizona' / ROUTE 1 BOX 181 CARMEL, CALIFORNIA / 93921".
Inscribed in an unidentifed hand in graphite on mount verso: "310".
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
"Art of the American West," Artmobile, September 1977 - December 1978.
"Five Years of Collecting," VMFA, 25 March - 4 May 1980.
Haas, Karen E., and Rebecca A. Senf. "Ansel Adams: In the Lane Collection." Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2006. pg.146-147.
© artist or artist’s estate

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