Ansel Adams’ Western Landscapes

At Fenimore Art Museum

ANSEL ADAMS’ WESTERN LANDSCAPES AT FENIMORE ART MUSEUM

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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — “Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth’s Beauty” will be on view at the Fenimore Art Museum April 1–May 13 in the Scriven Gallery.

As a young mountaineer, Ansel Adams discovered the natural beauty of the Western landscape. He is perhaps among the last of those romantic artists who have seen the great spaces of wilderness as a metaphor for freedom and heroic aspirations.

Adams is among those who have sketched the outlines of a new pictorial understanding of the wild landscape, based on nature’s intimate details, unnoted cases, and ephemeral gestures. Organized by the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, N.C., this exhibition of approximately 25 works includes such masterpieces as “Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California”; “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”; and “Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California.”

The Fenimore Art Museum is at 5798 State Highway 80, Lake Road. For information, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org or 1-888-547-1450.