The Tetons and the Snake River
{{Short description|1942 photograph by Ansel Adams}}
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The Tetons and the Snake River is a black and white photograph taken by Ansel Adams in 1942, at the Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming. It is one of his best known and most critically acclaimed photographs.
Analysis
The picture was taken from an elevated point of view and depicts the Snake River in a mountainous valley. A dramatically lit black-and-white photograph depicts a large river, which snakes from the bottom right to the center left of the picture. Dark evergreen trees cover the steep left bank of the river, and lighter deciduous trees cover the right. In the top half of the frame, there is a tall mountain range, dark but clearly covered in snow. The sky is overcast in parts, but only partly cloudy in others, and the sun shines through to illuminate the scene and reflect off the river in these places.{{Cite web|url=https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/36766/view|title=Exchange: The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming|website=exchange.umma.umich.edu}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/research/ansel-adams|title=Ansel Adams Photographs|date=August 15, 2016|website=National Archives}}
Art market
A mural-sized print of this photograph was sold for $988,000 at Sotheby's New York, on December 14, 2020, the highest price ever reached by an Ansel Adams work.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dpreview.com/news/4925755857/iconic-ansel-adams-image-sells-for-nearly-1m-at-sotheby-s-auction-total-sales-of-6-4m|title=Iconic Ansel Adams image sells for nearly $1M at Sotheby's auction, total sales of $6.4M|website=DPReview}}[https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/a-grand-vision-the-david-h-arrington-collection-of-ansel-adams-masterworks/the-grand-tetons-and-the-snake-river-grand-teton The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, Sotheby's]
Public collections
There are prints of this picture in the collections of several art museums, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, in Ann Arbor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66684.html|title=The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming,|date=July 17, 1942|via=National Gallery of Art}}{{Cite web|url=https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/123315|title=The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park|website=philamuseum.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109HKG|title=The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)|website=The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection}}
See also
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Category:Photographs in the National Gallery of Art
Category:Grand Teton National Park
Category:Landscape photographs
Category:Photographs by Ansel Adams
Category:Photographs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art