Ansel Adams in Our Time
Educator Resource
Ansel Adams in Our Time
Spring/Summer 2021
This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and curated for Portland by Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography.
The artwork provided here is under copyright and available for noncommercial, educational purposes only.
Ansel Adams,
(American, 1902–1984)
The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942
Photograph, gelatin silver print
2018.2733
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Lane Collection.
© The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Abelardo Morell,
(American (born in Cuba, 1948))
Tent-Camera Image on Ground: View of Mount Moran and the Snake River from Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 2011
Photograph, inkjet print
Abelardo Morell │Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Ansel Adams,
(American, 1902–1984)
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, about 1937
Photograph, gelatin silver print
2018.2428
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Lane Collection.
© The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Catherine Opie
(American, born in 1961)
Untitled #1 (Yosemite Valley), 2015
Photograph, pigment print
2018.2220
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Stephen D. and Susan W. Paine Acquisition Fund for 20th century and Contemporary Art.
© Catherine Opie. Courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Ansel Adams
(American, 1902–1984)
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
1941; print date: 1965–75
Photograph, gelatin silver print
2018.2730
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Lane Collection.
© The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
David Benjamin Sherry
(American, born in 1981)
Moon Over Rocks, Monument Valley, Arizona, 2013
Photograph, chromogenic print
Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York
© David Benjamin Sherry
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Will Wilson (American and Navajo, born 1969), Auto Immune Response No. 2, 2005, archival pigment print, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by bequest of Elizabeth Cole Butler by exchange, © Will WIlson, 2015.105.1, Courtesy, Portland Art Museum.
Will Wilson,
(Native American, Navajo (Diné), born in 1969)
How the West is One
2014
Photograph, inkjet print
Courtesy of the artist.
copyright, Will Wilson.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Ansel Adams
(American, 1902–1984)
Self-Portrait, Monument Valley, Utah, 1958
Photograph, gelatin silver print
2018.2657
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Lane Collection.
© The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Jonathan Calm (American, born 1971)
Left: Green Book: Crater Lake Lodge 1, 2020, pigment print,
Portland Art Museum, Museum purchase: Photography Fund, 2020.25.1
Right: Double Vision (Record), 2018, pigment print, Portland Art Museum, Museum purchase: Photography Fund, 2020.25.2
Wendy Red Star,
(American and Apsa’alooke, born 1981)
Indian Summer,
From the series Four Seasons
2006
Pigment-based inkjet print, Portland Art Museum, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., © Wendy Red Star, 2017.25.1b
Ansel Adams, (American, 1902–1984)
Entrance to Manzanar, 1943, printed 1984
Photograph, gelatin silver print, 2015.10.2
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, purchased as the gift of Sidney R. Knafel (PA1948),
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Ansel Adams, (American, 1902–1984)
Potato Field, North Farm, Manzanar, 1943, printed 1984
Photograph, gelatin silver print, 2015.10.38
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, purchased as the gift of Sidney R. Knafel (PA1948),
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Zig Jackson (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and American, born 1957), Indian Man on Ocean Beach, 1994, from the series Indian Man in San Francisco. Gelatin silver prints Portland Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 2016.81.2
Zig Jackson (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and American, born 1957), Indian Man on the Bus, 1994, from the series Indian Man in San Francisco. Gelatin silver prints Portland Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 2016.81.2
Melodie McDaniel
(American, born 1967)
Compton, CA (Kenny with Ebony), 2016
Pigment print, Portland Art Museum, Museum purchase: Photography Fund, 2020.43.1
Ansel Adams
(American, 1902–1984)
Grass and Burned Stump, Sierra Nevada, California, 1935
Photograph, gelatin silver print
2018.2440
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Lane Collection.
© The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Laura McPhee
(American, born in 1958)
Midsummer (Lupine and Fireweed),
2008
Photograph, inkjet print
Courtesy of the artist.
© Laura McPhee.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Ansel Adams
(American, 1902–1984)
Cemetery Statue and Oil Derricks, Long Beach, California,
1939
Photograph, gelatin silver print
2018.2572
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Lane Collection.
© The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Mitch Epstein
(American, born in 1952)
Altamont Pass Wind Farm, California, 2007
Photograph, chromogenic print
Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery
Reproduced with permission.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.