This 16 X 20 art print is printed on high quality lithograph art paper and is ready for framing.

This is an Ansel Adams 16x20 Art Print of San Ildefonso, taken during the Mural Project 1941 to 1942, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico.

Ansel Adams, a San Francisco native, was born on February 20, 1902. On a 1927 hike in Yosemite, Adams first developed his unique photographic style.

Shortly after making his unique photograph of Half Dome, Adams met Albert Bender, a San Francisco arts patron who offered to underwrite a portfolio for him. One hundred copies were produced at $50.00 each. The portfolio contained 18 prints, including Adams's most recent photograph of Half Dome.

On March 28, 1933, Adams met Alfred Stieglitz in New York. Stieglitz was an influential curator, as well as the most highly respected photographer of his day. He was deeply impressed by Adams's portfolio. "These," he said, "are some of the finest photographs I have ever seen." Stieglitz promised Adams a one-person exhibit at "An American Place," his gallery in New York, which opened in November 1936.

In 1941, Ansel Adams was asked to do an assignment for the Department of the Interior. They wanted to decorate the headquarters' corridors and major offices with enlarged photographic murals of scenes from the national parks. This assignment changed Adams's style. His pictures became larger and more dramatic.

But, due to the outbreak of World War II, the mural project was cancelled in 1942, and the murals were never made. This art print was made from one of the photographs taken for this cancelled project.

Adams used his stature as a great photographer to promote conservation. He met with Presidents Johnson, Ford, and Carter at the White House. In 1980, President Carter awarded Ansel Adams the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Ansel Adams died on April 22, 1984, at the age of 82. Six months after his death, Congress passed legislation designating more than 200,000 acres near Yosemite as the Ansel Adams Wilderness Area. A year later, an 11,760-foot mountain on the boundary of Yosemite National Park was named Mt. Ansel Adams.