(American, 1902-1984)
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, 1927, Yosemite National Park, California, signed in pencil mount lower right, artist's Carmel studio stamp  with title and date in ink, mount verso, gelatin silver print, 19 x 14 in.; silver metal sectional frame, 28-1/4 x 22-1/4 in.

Selected Literature: Adams, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown and Company, 1992, pl. 54; Newhall, The Eloquent Light, Sierra Club, 1963, p. 45; Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, 1983, p. 2; Stillman, ed. Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, 2007, pp. 35 and 414; Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Company, 2012, p. 42.

mounted, print with at least four very tiny whitish spots in sky left, possible accretion or unspotted areas; mount and frame in good condition