Thomas Moran

American, born England, 1837 - 1926

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American artist (1837-1926)

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We look across a bank of large boulders that give way to a waterfall in the middle distance, behind which a towering mountain marked with a white cross rises near the top of this vertical watercolor landscape. Painted with swirling washes of topaz and powder blue, cream white, and some touches of pale golden yellow, the central mountain ascends amid the clouds that settle around the peaks to either side. Slivers of white along the central and neighboring mountains echo the white cross, which seems to have been made with fallen snow on the face of the central peak. Clouds or fog eddying around the neighboring peaks make the middle distance hazy. Closer to us, some scrubby pine-green trees line a riverbank that feeds a waterfall in the lower third of the composition. The water falls behind the slate-gray boulders hulking in the lower left corner of the paper. A bird flies in the mist near the falls.
Thomas Moran, Mountain of the Holy Cross, 1890, watercolor and gouache over graphite on blue laid paper, Avalon Fund, Florian Carr Fund, Barbara and Jack Kay Fund, Gift of Max and Heidi Berry and Veverka Family Foundation Fund, 2012.28.1

Mountain of the Holy Cross

Thomas Moran · 1890 · watercolor and gouache over graphite on blue laid paper ·  Accession ID  2012.28.1

Thomas Moran, Long Island Landscape, 1889, etching in black, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3587

Long Island Landscape

Thomas Moran · 1889 · etching in black ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3587

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Famous Etchers: A Series of Twenty Original Etchings by Famous Foreign and American Artists

Stephen James Ferris, Anna Lea Merritt, James David Smillie, Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, Stephen Parrish, Edmund Henry Garrett, Peter Moran, Henry Farrer, Frederic Stuart Church, Stephen Alonzo Schoff, Otto Henry Bacher, Paul Lerat, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, Thomas Moran, Wilhelm Unger, Robert Swain Gifford, Estes and Lauriat · 1889 · bound volume with twenty etching on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2018.44.80

Thomas Moran, Mountain of the Holy Cross, Colorado, 1888, etching, roulette, and aquatint in brown on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3589

Mountain of the Holy Cross, Colorado

Thomas Moran · 1888 · etching, roulette, and aquatint in brown on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3589

Thomas Moran, View of Venice, 1888, watercolor and gouache on laid paper, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee), 2014.136.184

View of Venice

Thomas Moran · 1888 · watercolor and gouache on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2014.136.184

Thomas Moran, Green River, Wyoming Territory, 1886, etching in brown on laid paper, Gift of Jacob Kainen, 2002.98.164

Green River, Wyoming Territory

Thomas Moran · 1886 · etching in brown on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2002.98.164

Thomas Moran, The Much Resounding Sea, 1886, etching, drypoint and roulette in black on Japanese paper, Gift of Jacob Kainen, 2002.98.166

The Much Resounding Sea

Thomas Moran · 1886 · etching, drypoint and roulette in black on Japanese paper ·  Accession ID  2002.98.166

Thomas Moran, St. John's River, Florida, 1886, etching and drypoint in black, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3590

St. John's River, Florida

Thomas Moran · 1886 · etching and drypoint in black ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3590

Thomas Moran, Green River, Wyoming Territory, 1886, etching in brown on laid paper, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow), 2015.19.1317

Green River, Wyoming Territory

Thomas Moran · 1886 · etching in brown on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.1317

Thomas Moran, Morning, 1886, etching, sandpaper ground, and roulette in black on wove paper, Gift of Jacob Kainen, 2002.98.165

Morning

Thomas Moran · 1886 · etching, sandpaper ground, and roulette in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2002.98.165

Bibliography

1966

  • Wilkins, Thurman. Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains. Norman, Oklahoma, 1966.

1980

  • Clark, Carol. Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West. Austin, 1980.

1986

  • Morand, Anne and Nancy Friese. The Prints of Thomas Moran in the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art. Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1986.

1992

  • Kinsey, Joni Louise. Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West. Washington, D.C., 1992.

1996

  • Morand, Anne. Thomas Moran: The Field Sketches, 1856-1923. Norman, Oklahoma, 1996.

1997

  • Anderson, Nancy K. et al. Thomas Moran. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa; Seattle Art Museum. Washington, D.C., 1997.

1998

  • Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 10-11.