This timeline highlights the major exhibitions and public displays of Ansel Adams's work, which helped establish him as a prominent photographer.
1931
Exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution
Adams had a one-person exhibition, *Pictorial Photographs of the Sierra Nevada Mountains*, at the Smithsonian Institution.
1936
Exhibition at An American Place Gallery
Adams exhibited his photographs at Alfred Stieglitz's An American Place Gallery in New York.
1944
Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art
Adams's photographs from the Manzanar War Relocation Center were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
1963
Retrospective Exhibition at the M. H. de Young Museum
Adams had a retrospective exhibition, *The Eloquent Light*, at the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, the largest exhibit of a single photographer ever held.