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July Issue 2004
Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC, Features Photographs by Ansel Adams
The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC, will present the exhibition, Ansel Adams: Masterworks, featuring some of the finest and best-known photographs of Ansel Adams (1902-1984), from July 15 through Oct. 31, 2004.
The exhibition consists of 49 works from the Museum Set, the portfolio selected by Adams himself, late in life, to represent his best work. Such landmark works such as, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park California, and Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, are part of the selection. Approximately two thirds of the Museum Set is represented. An additional portrait photograph of Adams, taken by longtime friend and associate Jim Alinder, is included.
The exhibition emphasizes the values Adams placed on some of the country's most extraordinarily beautiful natural sites. His beloved Yosemite takes center stage. Adams is also well known as a champion for America's exceptional wild spaces and contributed to the preservation of many both as an activist and an artist. It is through Adams's photographs that America knows many of these places. The exhibition also emphasizes Adams's role as a teacher and a trailblazer in establishing straight photography as a respected art form.
Ansel Adams: Masterworks has been organized by Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA. Works in the exhibition are the generous gift of Dr. Fidel Realyvasques to Turtle Bay Exploration Park, a 300-acre cultural complex established to interpret the relationship between humans and nature.
Art Museum sponsors for Ansel Adams: Masterworks include Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina, the Chapin Foundation, the City of Myrtle Beach, Gene Ho Photography, R. Jordan Jewelers, Inc., Myrtle Beach Photo Plus, Santee Cooper, the Waccamaw Community Foundation and the Wachovia Foundation.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at 843/238-2510, e-mail at (artmuse@sccoast.net) or at (www.MyrtleBeachArtMuseum.org).
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