Thomas Moran
Paintings, Drawings
The Receding Wave
The Wilds of Lake Superior
The Juniata Evening
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
The Teton Range
Grand Canyon of Arizona at Sunset
Cockington Lane near Torquay. England
Hot Springs of the Yellowstone
Entrance to the Grand Canal. Venice
Hot Springs of the Yellowstone
Entrance to the Grand Canal. Venice
Christmas Card Illustration
Mist in Kanab Canyon Utah
Moonlit Shipwreck at Sea
A Path Through the Woods
The Tetons, Idaho, 1879
Toltec Gorge, Colorado, 1881
The Much Resounding Sea
Venice
The Great Thermal Springs of Gardiner's River Montana
Twilight Landscape. Flight into Egypt
Venice
Coconino Pines and Cliff. Arizona
Point Lobos Monterey California
Rainbow over the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Grand Canyon of the Colorado River
Valley of Cuernavaca
The North Dome Yosemite California
Zoroaster Peak Grand Canyon Arizona
Grand Canyon in Mist
Golden Gate Yellowstone National Park
Green River Cliffs Wyoming
The falling flakes mountain scene. Yosemite a mountain snowfall
A Glimpse of Georgica Pond
The Golden Hour
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Sunset Amagansett
Sunset Amagansett
Shepherdess Watching her Flock
The White Mountains
Yellowstone, Hot Springs, July 21, 1892
The Entrance to the Grand Canal 2
Conway Castle
Half-Moon Yosemite
Venetian Scene
Near San Francisco, Mexico, March 1, 1883
Canyon of the Rio Virgin, South Utah, 1873
Chama Below the Summit, 1892
Toltec Gorge and Eva Cliff from the West, Colorado, 1892
Donner Lake, 1879
Green River from the Ferry, Wyoming Territory, September 11, 1889
Vernal Falls, Yosemite, 1904
Acoma
Hacienda on the Lerma River, San Juan, Mexico, 1892
Waterhole in the Desert, Utah, 1873
Smelting Works at Denver
Hot Springs of Gardiner's River, Yellowstone
American Plains with Mountain Range in the Distance
Glen Eyrie, Colorado, 1892
Evening on the Susquehanna
Cliffs of Ecclesbourne Near Hastings
East Hampton
Cascade Falls. Yosemite
A Sand Storm, Acoma, New Mexico
Under the Trees
Tula the Ancient Capital of Mexico
Shenandoah River
Index Peak, Yellowstone, Wyoming
Great Blue Spring of the Lower Geyser Basin, Firehole River, YellowstoneMist in Kanab Canyon, Utah
Point Lobos, Monterey, CaliforniaThe North Dome, Yosemite, California
Zoroaster Peak (Grand Canyon, Arizona)
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
The Yellowstone Lake with Hot Springs
Autumn, Peconic Bay, Long Island
The Bathing Hole, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Landscape after Second Lesson with Edward Moran
Cliffs of the Rio Virgin, South Utah
Big Springs in Yellowstone Park
Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River
A Bit of the Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon of the Colorado River,
Tower Falls and Sulphur Rock, Yellowstone
Tower Falls and Sulphur Mountain, Yellowstone
Cresheim Glen, Wissahickon, Autumn
Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite Valley
Crossing the Brook Near Plainfield, New Jersey
View of Fairmont Waterworks, Philadelphia,
Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey
In the Cajon above Troyes, Mexico
A Deer in a Mountain Landscape
The Devils Den on Cascade Creek
Old Windmill, East Hampton, Long Island, New York
An Indian Pueblo, Laguna, New Mexico
The Yellowstone Range, near the Crow Mission,
Devils Tower, Green River, Wyoming
Castle Butte, Green River, Wyoming,
Castle of San Juan D'Ulloa, Vera Cruz, Mexico
Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp, Virginia
Young Girl in a Long Island Landscape
Mosquito Trail, Rocky Mountains of Colorado
In the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Shin-Au-Av-Tu-Weap (God Land), Canyon of the Colorado, Utah
Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice
East Hampton, Long Island, Sand
The Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice
Hot Springs at Gardiners River
Liberty Cap and Clematis Gulch
Pool in the Forest, Long Island
An English Fishing Village, Polperro, Cornwall
Stranded Ship on East Hampton Beach
Wyoming Fall, Yellowstone River
Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice
Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice
Fort George Island, aka, Whistlejacket
Venice, Reminiscence of Vera Cruz, Mexico
Red Rock, Arizona, aka, Coconino Pines and Cliff, Arizona
A Rocky Mountain Peak, Idaho Territory
Moonlight, Icebergs in Mid-Atlantic
The Yellowstone River, at its Exit from the Yellowstone Lake
Twilight Landscape, aka, Flight into Egypt,
Fiercely the Red Sun Descending, Burned His Way across the Heavens
Splendor of Venice (The Grand Canal)
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Fingal's Cave, Island of Staffa, Scotland
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
First Sketch Made in the West at Green River, Wyoming
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Santa Maria and The Ducal Palace, Venice
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho
Shepherdess Watching Her Flock
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
On the Berry Trail, Grand Canyon of Arizona
A Side Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arizona
On the St. John's River, Florida
Salvator Rosa Sketching the Banditi
On the Wissahickon near Chestnut Hill
Summer, Amphitheatre, Colorado River, Utah Territory
Under the Red Wall, Grand Canyon of Arizona
Golden Bough (after Joseph Mallor William Turner)
Temple of Venus, Castle of Baiae
A Water Pocket in Southern Utah
A Side Canyon, Grand Canyon of Arizona
Golden Gateway to the Yellowstone
An Arizona Sunset Near the Grand Canyon
Near East Hampton, Long Island
The Artist's Home, East Hampton, Long Island
Women at the Fountain, Vera Cruz
The Autumnal Woods, aka, Under the Trees
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Grand Canyon of Arizona at Sunset
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Thomas Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape. Moran along with Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, and William Keith are sometimes referred to as belonging to the Rocky Mountain School of landscape painters because of all of the Western landscapes made by this group
THOMAS MORAN
Biography
Thomas Moran standing on a balcony, smoking a cigar, 1912
Thomas Moran began his artistic career as a teenage apprentice to the Philadelphia wood-engraving firm Scattergood & Telfer. Moran found the engraving process "tedious" [3] and spent his free time working on his own watercolors.[4] By the mid-1850s he was drawing the firm's illustrations for publication rather than carving them. He began studying with local painter James Hamilton who introduced him to the work of British artist J. M. W. Turner. Moran traveled to England in 1862 to see Turner's work and he often acknowledged that artist's influence on his use of color and choice of landscapes. During the 1870s and 1880s Moran's designs for wood-engraved illustrations appeared in major magazines and gift oriented publications.
Grand Canyon of the Colorado River
Moran was married to Scottish born Mary Nimmo Moran (1842–1899), an etcher and landscape painter. The couple had two daughters and a son. His brothers Edward (1829–1901), John (1831–1902) and Peter (1841–1914), as well as his nephews Edward Percy Moran (1862–1935) and Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930) were also active as artists. He died in Santa Barbara, California on August 26, 1926.
Yellowstone images
Thomas Moran's vision of the Western landscape was critical to the creation of Yellowstone National Park. In 1871 Dr. Ferdinand Hayden, director of the United States Geological Survey, invited Moran, at the request of American financier Jay Cooke, to join Hayden and his expedition team into the unknown Yellowstone region. Hayden was just about to embark on his arduous journey when he received a letter from Cooke presenting Moran as "an artist of Philadelphia of rare genius".[5] Funded by Cooke (the director of the Northern Pacific Railroad), and Scribner's Monthly, a new illustrated magazine, Moran agreed to join the survey team of the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871 in their exploration of the Yellowstone region. During forty days in the wilderness area, Moran visually documented over 30 different sites and produced a diary of the expedition's progress and daily activities. His sketches, along with photographs produced by survey member William Henry Jackson, captured the nation's attention and helped inspire Congress to establish the Yellowstone region as the first national park in 1872. Moran's paintings along with Jackson's photographs revealed the scale and splendor of the beautiful Yellowstone region more than written or oral descriptions, persuading President Grant and the US Congress that Yellowstone was to be preserved. Moran's impact on Yellowstone was great, but Yellowstone had a significant influence on the artist, too. His first national recognition as an artist, as well as his first large financial success resulted from his connection with Yellowstone. He even adopted a new signature: T-Y-M, Thomas "Yellowstone" Moran. Just one year after his introduction to the area, Moran captured the imagination of the American public with his first enormous painting of a far-western natural wonder, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, which the government purchased in 1872 for $10,000.[6] For the next two decades, he published his work in various periodicals and created hundreds of large paintings. Several of these, including two versions of The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1893–1901 and 1872) and Chasm of the Colorado (1873–74) are now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Over the next forty years Moran traveled extensively. He went back to Yellowstone with Jackson in 1892. They were invited by Elwood Mead, the state engineer of Wyoming, in preparation for a "Wyoming Exhibition" at the World's Columbian Exposition.[6] Thousands of tourists were now able to visit the park, arriving by the Northern Pacific Railway, and Moran and Jackson were able to take advantage of the tourist facilities, such as a hotel at Mammoth Hot Springs. Moran wrote "After a day at Norris we left for the Grand Canyon where we stayed two days and made a great many photos. I saw so much to sketch that I have determined to return there myself after I have been to the Geyser Basins and the lake and spend a week at work there. It is as glorious in color as ever and I was completely carried away by its magnificence. I think I can paint a better picture of it than the old one after I have made my sketches."[6] Moran sketched many more images of the Canyon on this trip than he had in 1871, including views from the viewpoint named for him on the 1871 trip, "Moran Point."
Moran was elected to the membership of the National Academy of Design in 1884 and produced numerous works of art in his senior years.[7]
Painting in the White House
Thomas Moran has a painting exhibited as part of the White House collection. In the picture President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres is depicted in the Oval Office. On the wall, the portrait of George Washington is between City of Washington From Beyond the Navy Yard (1833) by George Cooke (on the left) and The Three Tetons (1895) by Thomas Moran (on the right). Official White House photo by Pete Souza.
Legacy
The Thomas Moran House in East Hampton, New York is a National Historic Landmark.[8] Mount Moran in the Grand Teton National Park is named for Moran.[9] His work is held in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.[10]
See also
List of Hudson River School artists
Edward Moran
New York Etching Club
Western painting
References
"The Lure of the West". University of Virginia, American Studies. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
Kinsey, Joni Louise (1992). Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 43–92. ISBN 1-56098-170-9.
Wilkins, Thurman. Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998, p. 18-19.
Wilkins, Thurman, p. 19.
"Yellowstone National Park:
Its Exploration and Establishment". National Park Service. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
Richard P. Townsend, Thomas Moran at Gilcrease - Moran and the European Tradition, Gilcrease Journal, vol. 5, no.1, Spring/Summer 1997.
"Thomas Moran Gallery
The Yellowstone National Park and the Mountain Regions
of Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and Utah". Arader Galleries. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=416&ResourceType=Building
"Hayden Expedition". Wyoming Tales and Trails. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
"Thomas Moran - People - Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum".
Sources
Wilkins, Thurman; Hinkley, Caroline L; Goetzmann, William H. (1998). Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3040-8. LCC N6537.M6443 W55 1998.
Kinsey, Joni Louise (1992). Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-170-9.
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