Portrait of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California

Bob Kolbrener

2006

  • Titles Portrait of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California (Proper)
  • Artist Bob Kolbrener, American, born 1949
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 15 1/2 × 19 3/8 in. (39.4 × 49.2 cm) mat: 24 × 30 in. (61 × 76.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John and Nancy Poynor in honor of John Morton, AFI.83.2014
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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