MITCH DOBROWNER. Storm, Capitol Reef, Utah, 2010. 7.3x11" pigment print on 13x19" paper. Printed 2010. Title, edition number, signature inscribed in pencil on print recto.

A wonderful print by Mitch Dowbrowner, one of the leading contemporary western American landscape photographers.

Los Angeles based photographer Mitch Dobrowner (b. 1956) is known for being a daring weather-chaser in the pursuit of capturing the portrait of the perfect storm. Born and raised on Long Island, New York, Dobrowner began his photography career the moment his father gave him an old Argus rangefinder. At the age of twenty-one he quit his job and toured the American Southwest, finding inspiration in the limitlessness of the natural landscapes and the photography of artists like Ansel Adams and Minor White. Dobrowner's work exudes a reverence for American vistas in his Landscape series, and the tumultuous elegance of nature's most relentless elements in his Storms series.

Dobrowner's photographs are on display in galleries and museums around the globe, including the Ordover Gallery at the San Diego Natural History Museum, the Photography Museum of China in Lishui, and the Photo-Eye Gallery of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Additionally, they have been featured in publications including, but not limited to, Newsweek, LensWork, Wired Magazine and National Geographic.

Credit: http://www.catherinecouturier.com/exhibitions/previous-exhibitions/mitch-dobrowner-still-earth/

Capitol Reef National Park is an American national park in south-central Utah. The Park is approximately 60 miles (97 km) long on its north-south axis and just 6 miles (9.7 km) wide on average. It was established in 1971 to preserve 241,904 acres of desert landscape and is open all year, with May through September being the highest visitation months.

Partially in Wayne County, Utah, the area was originally named "Wayne Wonderland" in the 1920s by local boosters Ephraim P. Pectol and Joseph S. Hickman. Capitol Reef National Park was designated a national monument on August 2, 1937, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to protect the area's colorful canyons, ridges, buttes, and monoliths; however, it was not until 1950 that the area officially opened to the public.

The majority of the nearly 100-mile-long up-thrust formation called the Waterpocket Fold - a rocky spine extending from Thousand Lake Mountain to Lake Powell - is preserved within the park. Capitol Reef is an especially rugged and spectacular segment of the Waterpocket Fold by the Fremont River. The Park was named for its whitish Navajo Sandstone cliffs with dome formations - similar to the white domes often placed on capitol buildings - that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold. Locally, reef refers to any rocky barrier to land travel, just as ocean reefs are barriers to sea travel.

Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Reef_National_Park

Excellent. Minor Wear