Chazen Museum of Art, Univ. of Wisconsin (Madison)
800 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
Madison, WI 53706
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1902 San Francisco, California - 1984 Carmel, California. Known for: Western landscape photography.
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a solitary child; at the age of twelve, he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a solitary child; at the age of twelve, he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his frustrating and erratic youth. Moreover, the careful training and exacting craft required of a musician profoundly informed his visual artistry, as well as his influential writings and teachings on photography. Always a lover of nature, Adams life... Read full biography
Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a solitary child; at the age of twelve, he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his frustrating and erratic youth. Moreover, the careful training and exacting craft required of a musician profoundly informed his visual artistry, as well as his influential writings and teachings on photography. Always a lover of nature, Adams life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth gesture" of the Yosemite Sierra; he spent substa... Read full biography
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About Ansel Easton Adams: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (7)
All MuseumsFigge Art Museum
225 West 2nd Street
Davenport, IA 52804-4520Richard M. Ross Art Museum
Ohio Wesleyan University
60 South Sandusky Street
Delaware, OH 43015San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Sheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300Swope Art Museum
25 South Seventh Street
Terre Haute, IN 47807Yosemite Museum
P.O. Box 577
Yosemite National Park, CA 95318