Dogwood blossoms (Primary Title)
Portfolio Three: Yosemite Valley (Portfolio Title)

Ansel Adams, American, 1902–1984 (Artist)

1938, printed 1960
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print on Kodak Medalist F paper
Mount: 18 × 14 in. (45.72 × 35.56 cm)
Image: 9 1/4 × 6 3/8 in. (23.5 × 16.19 cm)
85.1538
Not on view
83/208
dry-mounted
Signed by the photographer in black ink below image right on mount: "Ansel Adams".
Portfolio stamp in black ink, with edition annotated within by the photographer in red ink when noted with single quotations, on mount verso: "PORTFOLIO THREE/ (Yosemite Valley) / ANSEL ADAMS / PRINT NO. '10' of SET NO.'83' / Published by / THE SIERRA CLUB / SAN FRANCISCO / 1959 / Reproduction Rights Reserved / TYPOGRAPHY AND CASES/ COMPLETED IN 1960".
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Sabaroff
Ansel Adams, Compositions in Nature, Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, October 29, 2022 - March 5, 2023

"The Majestic and the Mundane," VMFA, 1 Oct 2011-26 Feb 2012
Organic: Photographs of the Natural World, April 11 to October 12, 2015.
Adams, Ansel. Introduction to "The Portfolios of Ansel Adams" by John Szarkowski, vii-xii. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977. pp.37-39, 50.
©artist or artist’s estate

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