Vintage Ansel Adams Winter Morning Yosemite Hills Bros. Coffee Can
Item History & Price
Ansel Adams Winter Morning Yosemite Hills Bros. 3 lbs. Coffee Can.Can is in very good used condition, some scratches, no dents. Scratch along the top from opening lid. Minor cracks (2) in plastic lid. The image on the can reads clearly, with no significant blemishes or flaws. A rare opportunity to own this very collectable coffee can.
In 1969, Hills Brothers Coffee Inc. released a limited number of 3-pound coffee tins featuring Ansel Adams' Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley, California, printed... on the exterior as part of a holiday collaboration with Adams.These tins are extremely collectible. Please view all pictures for condition.
"While most visitors to Yosemite National Park come in the summer months, winter is a magical time of year in Yosemite Valley. The majesty and solitude of its snow-capped cliffs and frozen lakes fascinated Ansel Adams, who returned again and again over the decades to make hundreds of photographs of the rugged landscape in winter. This particular photograph, of Yosemite Valley as seen from Inspiration Point, was made in 1938 with a large-format, 8 inch x 10 inch view camera, which allowed Ansel to capture the sheer face of El Capitan and the valley’s striking rock formations in the dazzling winter light.Though this iconic image serves as the cover photograph for Ansel’s Yosemite and the High Sierra, its most prominent “publication” was on something quite different from a book cover. In 1969, Adams partnered with Hills Brothers Coffee, a San Francisco-based coffee roaster, to produce a special-edition coffee can adorned with this photograph. As Ansel put it in his autobiography: “The idea was to produce something of lasting attractiveness after the original contents of the can had been consumed… Potentially corny: actually reasonable.”-- from The Ansel Adams Gallery website
In 1969, Hills Brothers Coffee Inc. released a limited number of 3-pound coffee tins featuring Ansel Adams' Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley, California, printed... on the exterior as part of a holiday collaboration with Adams.These tins are extremely collectible. Please view all pictures for condition.
"While most visitors to Yosemite National Park come in the summer months, winter is a magical time of year in Yosemite Valley. The majesty and solitude of its snow-capped cliffs and frozen lakes fascinated Ansel Adams, who returned again and again over the decades to make hundreds of photographs of the rugged landscape in winter. This particular photograph, of Yosemite Valley as seen from Inspiration Point, was made in 1938 with a large-format, 8 inch x 10 inch view camera, which allowed Ansel to capture the sheer face of El Capitan and the valley’s striking rock formations in the dazzling winter light.Though this iconic image serves as the cover photograph for Ansel’s Yosemite and the High Sierra, its most prominent “publication” was on something quite different from a book cover. In 1969, Adams partnered with Hills Brothers Coffee, a San Francisco-based coffee roaster, to produce a special-edition coffee can adorned with this photograph. As Ansel put it in his autobiography: “The idea was to produce something of lasting attractiveness after the original contents of the can had been consumed… Potentially corny: actually reasonable.”-- from The Ansel Adams Gallery website
