Ansel Adams

American
(1902–1984)

Nevada Fall, Rainbow (from Portfolio III Yosemite Valley 1960)
1959

Gelatin silver print
9.5 x 7.25 in. (24.13 x 18.415 cm)
Museum Permanent Collection
1984.1476

Adams was a 30-year member of the Sierra Club, one of the nation’s first environmental groups founded in 1892 by John Muir. In 1960, the Club published Adam’s Portfolio III: Yosemite Valley, a series of 16 silver gelatin prints including this image. Adams later wrote in his autobiography “I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.”

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This object has the following keywords:

• bodies of water - Natural depressions or courses in the earth's surface that are filled with water, including seas, lakes, and rivers.
• cliffs
• nature
• photographs
• river
• tree
• water - A liquid made up of molecules of hydrogen and oxygen (HO2). When pure, it is colorless, tasteless, and odorless. It exists in gaseous, liquid, and solid forms; it is liquid at room temperature. It is the liquid of which seas, lakes, and rivers are composed, and which falls as rain. Water is one of the most plentiful and essential of compounds. It is vital to life, participating in virtually every process that occurs in plants and animals. One of its most important properties is its ability to dissolve many other substances. The versatility of water as a solvent is essential to living organisms. The term "water" is typically used to refer to the liquid form of this compound; for the solid or gaseous forms, use "ice" or "water vapor."
• waterfall

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Water Finds Its Way , 2/3/2015 - 2/3/2016

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