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This is perhaps Stephen Lyman´s most perfect painting of Yosemite National Park indeed, it is perhaps the finest painting of Yosemite you will ever see. Stephen Lyman knew the trails both charted and uncharted and terrain of Yosemite as well the lines in his own palm. His magnificent depiction of Half Dome captures the grandeur of the landscape the way that no photograph ever could.

“I saw Yosemite´s Half Dome, caressed by gossamer clouds and bathed in the fleeting alpenglow,said Lyman. “Can words convey this mountain drama? This is why I paint the wilderness.