Riverside Lounge

Birney Imes

1989

  • Titles Riverside Lounge (Proper)
  • Artist Birney Imes, American, born 1951
  • Medium color coupler print
  • Dimensions sheet: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1989 Museum Dinner and Ball in honor of Mrs. Peter T. Worthen, Chairman, and Co-Chairmen Mrs. Drayton Nabers, Jr., Mrs. Douglas K. S. Hyland, and Mrs. Frederick W. Murray, Jr., 1990.24, image © Birney Imes
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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