RENO, NEVADA.- The NMA will present Ansel Adams: Masterworks, a traveling exhibition of photographs by legendary photographer Ansel Adams (1902 – 1984). The exhibition consists of forty-eight works from the Museum Set, a portfolio hand-selected by Adams to represent his best work. The NMA will present Ansel Adams: Masterworks as part of its ongoing mission to exhibit and collect works of art which focus on the aesthetic articulation of the land and environment.

The photographs presented in Ansel Adams: Masterworks reveal the importance Adams placed on the visual splendor of natural environments such as the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite Valley and New Mexico. Landmark photographs such as Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, and Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico are included in the exhibition. It is through Adams’s photographs that many Americans have come to know these places.

Ansel Adams: Masterworks has been organized by Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, California. Works in the exhibition are the generous gift of Dr. Fidel Realyvasquez to Turtle Bay Exploration Park, a 300-acre cultural complex established to interpret the relationship between humans and nature.