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Icicles, Awahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park
Icicles, Awahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park

Icicles, Awahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park

Artist Ansel Adams (American, 1902 - 1984)
Dateca. 1934
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 x 7 inches (23.81 x 17.78 cm)
Framed: 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (54.61 x 44.45 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3870
InscribedSignature Signed in artist's hand On Mount
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionSnow covered tree in foreground with multiple snow covered trees in background. The eaves of a building visible at top of frame are covered with icicles.Exhibition History

In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, October 30, 1999 – January 2, 2000, the Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME, January 20 - March 19, 2000, the Orlando Museum of Art, June 2 - August 11, 2000, the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, October 8, 2000 - January 7, 2001, no. 114.

Provenance
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1993; 
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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