Artist: Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
Nationality: American
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Media: Photography
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Dunes, Oceano, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Yosemite Falls, Spring, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1983, Gelatin-silver print
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Northern California Coast Redwoods, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Sunrise, Mount Tom, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1948, printed 1976, Gelatin-silver print
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Grass on Pool, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1935, printed 1950s, Gelatin-silver print
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Leaf, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Storm Surf, Timber Cove, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Vernal Falls, Yosemite Valley, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Artist: Ansel Adams Title: El Capitan, Sunrise Date: 1956 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.9-1/2
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Artist: Ansel Adams Title: Winter Storm Date: 1944 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.7-3/8 x
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Artist: Ansel Adams Title: Trees and Snow Date: 1933 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.11-3/16
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Road After Rain, Northern California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1960, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1941, printed late 1970s, Gelatin-silver print
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Artist: Ansel Adams Title: Siesta Lake, Yosemite National Park, California Date: about 1958 Medium: gelatin
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Oak Tree, Sunset City, Sierra Foothills, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Mono Lake, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1940, printed 1981, Gelatin-silver print
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Siesta Lake, Yosemite National Park, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Castle Rock, Summit Road above Saratoga, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Tuolomne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Cypress and Fog, Pebble Beach, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1967, printed 1979, Gelatin-silver print
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Orchard, Early Spring, Near Stanford University, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Portfolio Four: What Majestic Word: In Memory of Russell Varian, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Half Dome and Moon, Yosemite Valley, CA, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1950, Gelatin-silver print
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Ansel Adams at 683 Brockhurst, Willard Van Dyke (United States, 1906 - 1986)  (Artist), 1933, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Clearing Storm, Sonoma County Hills, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Moon & Half Dome, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1960, printed 1960, Gelatin-silver print
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Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1941, printed later, Gelatin-silver print, toned
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Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1960, printed later, Gelatin-silver print, toned
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Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1932, printed 1979, Gelatin-silver print
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Teklanika River, Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Vernal Fall, Yosemite Valley, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1948, printed 1981, Gelatin-silver print
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Sierra Nevada, Winter Evening, From the Owens Valley, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1942, printed 1981, Gelatin-silver print
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Aspens, Northern New Mexico, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1958, printed 1958, Gelatin-silver print
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Claus Sievert Mount Ansel Adams--Recollected Etching and soft ground (from two plates) 1986
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Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1941, printed 1948, Gelatin silver print
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Surf Sequence, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1940 circa, printed after 1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Surf Sequence, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1940 circa, printed after 1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Surf Sequence, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1940 circa, printed after 1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Surf Sequence, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1940 circa, printed after 1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Eagle Peak & Middle Brother, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1960s, printed 1960s, Gelatin-silver print
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Surf Sequence, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1940 circa, printed after 1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Mrs. Elizabeth Gunn at Independence, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1944, printed circa 1955, Gelatin-silver print
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Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1944, printed 1980, Gelatin-silver print
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Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1927, printed 1979, Gelatin-silver print
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Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1932, printed 1979, Gelatin-silver print
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Sequoia Roots, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1963, Gelatin-silver print
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Autumn Storm, Los Trampas, near Peñasco, New Mexico, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1958, printed 1981, Gelatin-silver print
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Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1944, printed later, Gelatin-silver print, toned
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Lone Pine Peak, Sierra Nevada, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1960, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1944, printed 1980, Gelatin-silver print
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Bridal Veil Fall, Yosemite Valley, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1927, printed 1981, Gelatin-silver print
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Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1940, printed 1981, Gelatin-silver print
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Merced River, Cliffs, Autumn, Yosemite Valley, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1939, printed 1980, Gelatin-silver print
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Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1927, printed 1980, Gelatin-silver print
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Sunrise, Sand Dunes, Death Valley, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1948, printed December 1977, Gelatin-silver print
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The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1942, printed 1979, Gelatin-silver print
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Yosemite Falls, Spring, Yosemite National Park, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , 1983, printed later, Gelatin-silver print, toned
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Tenaya Lake, Mount Conness, Yosemite National Park, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1946, printed 1981, Gelatin-silver print
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Half Dome, Merced River, Winter, Yosemite Valley, California, Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) , circa 1938, printed 1979, Gelatin-silver print

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Ansel Adams at 100 Opens Today
IMAGE:
Rondal Partridge
Ansel Adams, 1938
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Bucketworks: Mark Adams Exposed
Mark Adams has received awards and recognition for his extraordinary artwork and is known for his creative use of materials and his wonderful urban art environment at his Bay View home. Please come and enjoy...
Portland Museum of Art: In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West
In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West was organized by the Dayton Art Institute. The presentation of this exhibition at the ...
MoMA QNS: Ansel Adams at 100
The exhibition is accompanied by a major publication containing reproductions of extraordinary fidelity and an essay by Mr. Szarkowski that articulates his reappraisal of Adams's work. The international tour is made possible by Hewlett-Packard....
Addison Gallery of American Art: Reinventing the West: The Photographs of Ansel Adams and Robert Adams
The Addison will publish a fullly illustrated catalogue with essays by curator Allison Kemmerer and John Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development at Harvard University. IMAGE:
Robert Ad...
Oakville Galleries: Kim Adams: Bruegel-Bosch Bus
Bruegel-Bosch Bus is created from a Volkswagon van that has been cut to expose territories of leisure and industry - each encroaching on the other. Embracing a ...
Lawrence Asher Gallery: Lisa Adams­ The Future of Paradise Past
“Her (Lisa’s) work’s not so much a process of entropy as imperfection, things don’t become cocked­up, things are cocked­up right from the start. It’s a message that broaches a spirituality of imperfection. Once it does so, it’s up to the vie...
Center for Creative Photography: The Ansel Adams Centennial: Classic Images and A Portrait of Ansel Adams
The Ansel Adams Centennial is drawn from the Ansel Adams Archive at CCP, the largest repository of his work in the world. The archive includes voluminous correspondence, book layouts and manuscripts, ledgers, periodicals and monographs, camera...
Cincinnati Art Museum: Ansel Adams, A Legacy: Masterworks from The Friends of Photography Collection
Presented by The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation. Organized by The Friends of Photography, San Francisco and sponsored nationally by Metropolitan LifeAdmission Fees:...
Robert Mann Gallery: Ansel Adams : 100+1
Prints on display will vary in size, from small format vintage photographs such as a 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch contact print of Lodgepole Pines, Yosemite National Park, 1921 to large scale works such as a 40 x 30 1/2 inch mural format print of Monolith, ...
High Museum: Ansel Adams and His Legacy
In addition to the "Classic Images" collection, this exhibition will focus on the important legacy of Ansel Adams' influence on the photographers that followed him. A selection of works in the section entitled "Ansel Adams and His Legacy" will f...
Translations Gallery: Deidre Adams: Passages
Deidre Adams is a painter, photographer, and mixed media fiber artist. She incorporates painting, photography, stitching, and collage in her work, and she experiments with new ways of combining process and techniques, from the traditional to the ...
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery: Wit, Wonder and Whirling Wigs
Kim Adams is one of Canadas most internationally celebrated artists. In his first survey in Toronto, The Power Plant exhibition features work from 1986-2001, including large sculptural installations, small models and drawings, and a new outdoo...
Presentation House Gallery: The Altered Landscape: Photographs from the Nevada Museum
The exhibition of 37 artists includes: Robert Adams, considered to be one of the most important photographers working today, who has been documenting the environmental destruction of the American West in the late 20th century. Richard Misrach and ...
Photographers' Gallery: Citigroup Photography Prize 2004
Paul Wombell, Director of The Photographers' Gallery says of this year's short-list: "Over the last 30 years Robert Adams, Peter Fraser, David Goldblatt and Joel Sternfeld have created important bodies of work that have been a major influence on g...
America. Oh, Yes!: LONG-LOST HISTORIC BLACK PHOTOS AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME
Selections from the collection toured museums around the country for nearly five years under the sponsorship of the Columbia Museum of Art. But the photographs have never been available as art until now. A Select group of the photographs ...
Orlando Museum of Art: IN PRAISE OF NATURE: ANSEL ADAMS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
During the 19th Century, photographers celebrated the unrealized potential and glory of the western landscape. Works by 19th-Century photographers ...
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: Altered Landscape: the Carol Franc Buck Collection
Focusing in large part on the topography of the new West - a region that represents some of the most challenged landscapes in America - ...
Eltham Wiregrass Gallery: Paradise Lost, Found: Karin Ryan, Philip Adams and Janice McBride
Janice McBride images are most symbolic and abstract of all. She uses a combination of monoprints, collages, painting and sanding to create her ephemeral characters, suspended in their own dreamy reality. Sharp edges and bright colours sit nicely ...
MASS MoCA: Open and Shut: Artists' Doors
The doors in the Kidspace exhibition were created and designed by six regional artists: Richard Garrison from Albany, New York; Ann Kremers from North Adams, Massachusetts; Julia Morgan and August Ventimiglia, both from Williamstown, Massachu...
Eiteljorg Museum of American and Western Art: Ansel Adams: A Life s Work
In the five years leading up to his death in 1984, Adams selected 75 photographs he felt best represented the range and quality of his work. Now, this Museum Set is coming to the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapo...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: AdamsMorioka: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design
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QUT Art Museum: The Brisbane Line: Queensland Women Artists of the Early Twentieth Century
The exhibition, which provides a diversity of inspiration from nineteenth-century moody impressionism and urban spaces of Brisbane to portraits of fashionable women of the ‘flapper’ era, has been co-curated by Robyn Daw, Manager, Education, National ...
Center for Creative Photography: Call for Artists: Ansel Adams Internship
Eligibility Open only to full-time University of Arizona graduate students with at least a 3.5 GPA (Board of Regents requirement). Students may be pursuing graduate degrees in any discipline, but must have evidenced sufficient interest in the ...
Contemporary Artists Center: Call for Aritsts: Residencies Available
Please visit the website to download an application. Applications accepted on an ongoing basis. http://www.thecac.org...
MASS MoCA: MASS MoCA Welcomes MoCI Curator, Superfiction Expert
The presentation will also celebrate ten years of the fictive Museum of Contemporary Ideas on New York's Park Avenue. Arguably the largest contemporary art space in the world, this was the first of many superf...
Kentucky Art and Craft Museum: A Sense of Style, A Sense of Place: A National Photography Invitational
These processes include photogravures, platinum prints, hand coloring and computer generated prints. Susan Fenton, Kenro Izu, ...
Terra Galleria: TED ORLAND, Scenes of Wonder & Curiosity: A Wide-Ranging Retrospective
"Lead an interesting life and you will make interesting art" is Orland's overall theory. His photography, with its intriguing mix of format, technique and content, is evidently an integral part of that life. Instead of creating large series' of wo...
MASS MoCA: Paintings on Paper Featuring The Work of Laylah Ali
This African-American artist, born in 1968, has created surreal figures that seem to have undergone numerous cultural and racial permutations. Ali's enigmatic narratives, with so many details left unsaid, are each easily applied to any numb...
Physics Room: Bombs Away: Works by Five New Zealand Artists
Bombs Away has been funded by the Peace and Disarmament Education Trust - set up with funds provided by the French government after the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. The exhibition is supported by the Center for Land Use Interpretation, the S...
University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach: 19+1+1
Over its twenty-five-year history of presenting diverse, often groundbreaking exhibitions, the museum has amassed a world-class collection of contemporary artwork. On the occasion of this exhibition, the UAM will display the latest additions to i...
Museum of Modern Art: Making Choices (third series)
The exhibitions are: Anatomically Incorrect; How Simple Can You Get; Home Movies; Ideal Motif: Stieglitz, Weston, Adams, and Callahan; Modern Living 2; New York Salon; The Observer: Cartier- Bresson after the War; The Rhetoric of Persuasion; ...
MASS MoCA: Yankee Remix: Nine New Works and a Surprising Collaboration
The exhibition concept parallels and amplifies the concept behind MASS MoCA itself. The museum, housed on a restored 19th-century factory campus, is the largest center for contemporary art in the country. Just as MASS MoCA itself reimagines an i...
Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation: A Call for Artists for OCAF's Holiday Market 2000
Located within easy distance of Athens and Atlanta, the Holiday Market will be held at the historic 1902 OCAF Art Center in picturesque Watkinsville, Georgia. For an application or more information visit OCAF...
Gallery C: LA Woman: Lisa Adams, Kim McCarty, Meg Cranston, Jill Giegerich and Becky Guttin
As visual thinkers that truly provoke compelling dialogues, these women epitomize what it means to be an artist.  By pushing the boundaries, creating controversy and inspiring thought, discussion and change, seek to awaken the consciousness of ...
University of Virginia Art Museum: Portraiture: Identity
Anne Lauinger, Museum-McIntire Graduate Fellow, curated the exhibition. Our 21st century notion of identity is as multifaceted as the world that shapes it: "identity" encompasses the unique blend of character, gender, race, sexual orientati...
Detroit Institute of Arts: The Enduring Horizon: American Landscape Photographs from the Collection
Early photographic pioneers William Henry Jackson, Timothy OSullivan and Carleton Watkins chronicle and interest in the exploration of the American West during the 19th century. Also featured are images of urban and suburban ...
San Bernardino County Museum, Fisk Gallery: Trial and Transformation: The Creative Process Revealed
Marilyn Prescott, Guest Curator of the exhibit, believes that courage is one of the things that separates the real artist from the merely visionary art...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design
This exhibition, the first full-scale retrospective of Schreckengosts work, will include drawings, watercolors, ceramics, childrens toys, and bicycles. It will also feature striking examples of his engaging, inventive, often ...
MASS MoCA: Eric Carle's From Paper to Print Is the New Exhibit in Kidspace at MASS MoCA
Kidspace at MASS MoCA is both a child-centered art gallery where contemporary artists' work is shown and a studio where children can create innovative artwork of their own. This year Kidspace is working with every student and teacher from B...

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