"Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park, California"

gelatin silver print mounted on cardboard

portfoliostamp, titled and signed by Allan Ross on verso

Ansel Adams made this image around 1940 with an 8x10” view camera. Sentinel Dome, the second highest point in Yosemite Valley after Half Dome, looms over the south rim of Yosemite Valley , opposite Yosemite Fall and west of Glacier Point. Though Adams' photograph made the Jeffrey Pine famous, it was long an icon for photographers visiting Yosemite; Carleton Watkins photographed it in 1867 for the first time. the easy hike to reach Sentinel Dome from the Glacier Point road, the tree became a popular destination; over the years, thousands of visitors carved their initials into it. Despite the efforts of park rangers who carried buckets of water to it, the tree perished in the drought of 1976-1977 and fell in August 2003.
(Ansel Adams Gallery)