Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West
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Thomas Moran
 List Price: Price: $149.99 DescriptionA survey of Thomas Moran's work throughout his career, this text presents over 100 of his paintings, a biographical essay with chronology and several essays which explore his work. The book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.Thomas Moran hiked through the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone in 1871, when most folks back East thought that stories of hundred-foot-high geysers, thousand-foot-deep canyons, and such were probably hogwash. After he submitted his glorious paintings of cliffs, rapids, and sun-struck vistas, Americans were finally persuaded that the West was as real as it was wild. It is largely because of Moran's glowing, oil-painted testimony that a formerly skeptical U.S. Congress soon preserved those spectacular lands. This book is the catalog of the 1998 retrospective of Moran's work, which opened on the 125th anniversary of the dedication of Yellowstone National Park. Anderson's essays cover every phase of Moran's life and career, from his work as an illustrator and printmaker to his success as one of the gentleman painters of New York City. It contains scores of archival photographs of the rather theatrical Moran as he aged, with his ever-lengthening, ever-whitening chin whiskers, and such treasures as a long letter he wrote from Yellowstone to his beautiful wife, Mary, in which he blithely describes rattlesnakes, tarantulas, and wolves observed at close range. The letter is signed "Your loving Hub." Along with Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, John Frederick Kensett, and other 19th-century landscape painters, viewers often associate Moran with what he called "a wonderful age," the optimistic years between the Civil War and the Great War. This book contains plates of every quintessentially American scene he painted--the pulsing sunset over the pristine wilderness, the windswept mountain pass, the misty, rushing stream. A scholarly book, it nonetheless captures much of the wonder Moran and his peers felt for the vast Western landscape and the glowing future it represented. --Peggy Moorman
Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains
 List Price: Price: $31.40 You Save: $8.55 (21%) DescriptionThe American West was the subject of Thomas Moran’s greatest artistic triumphs - Yosemite, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Zion Canyon, the Virgin River, Colorado’s Mountain of the Holy Cross, and the Grand Tetons - but his travels with Ferdinand V. Hayden’s geological surveys of the Upper Yellowstone were matched by trips to his native Britain and to Venice, Florida, the Spanish Southwest, and Old Mexico. These scenes inspired memorable landscapes and seascapes, as did the sojourns of the Moran family in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and East Hampton, Long Island, when they retreated from the demands of the New York art scene. Moran was an artist happy in his work. He wrote, "I have always held that the grandest, most beautiful, or wonderful in nature, would, in capable hands, make the grandest, most beautiful, or wonderful pictures."
The Morans : The Artistry of a 19th-Century Family of Painter-Etchers
 List Price: Price: $10.00 DescriptionRarely in the history of American art does one find a family of artists as extensive as the Morans. The Peale family of Philadelphia comes to mind, but such examples are few and far between. Of all the Moran family members, Thomas Moran is the most renowned, famous for his expansive panoramas of the American West from the 1870s to the turn of the century. However, with his wife, Mary Nimmo Moran, also an artist, the two shared a pronounced interest in painting the terrain of New Jersey and East Hampton, Long Island and became prolific watercolorists and etchers of eastern views. This book highlights previously unknown watercolors by both Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran in addition to a selection of their etched works. While contemporary scholarship regards Thomas Moran as the foremost painter in the family, many of the Morans were accomplished artists and held positions of great importance in the late nineteenth century. This publication addresses the artistry of multiple members of the extended Moran family including painted seascapes, portraits, and genre scenes by Edward, his son Leon, and Peter Moran, brother to Edward and Thomas.
Thomas Moran: Yellowstone Man
 List Price: $8.95 DescriptionThomas Moran was born in England on February 12,1837, but raised in Pennsylvania. He was an artist of the Hudson River School. Thomas Moran's vision of the Western landscape was critical to the creation of Yellowstone National Park. His pencil and watercolor field sketches and paintings captured the grandeur and documented the extraordinary terrain and natural features of the Yellowstone region. Moran's artwork, along with William Henry Jackson’s photographs, were presented to members of Congress by park proponents. These powerful images of Yellowstone fired the imagination and helped inspire Congress to establish the National Park System in 1916. Thomas Moran was so proud of this contribution that he adopted a new signature: T-Y-M, Thomas “Yellowstone” Moran. Mount Moran in the Grand Teton National Park is also named for Moran. He continued to paint many of his great works until his senior years and passed away on August 25, 1926 in Santa Barbara, CA.Thomas Moran art book contains 132 reproductions of the National Parks including; Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and The Tetons, with title and date.
Thomas Moran: The Field Sketches, 1856-1923 (Gilcrease-Oklahoma Series on Western Art and Artists)
 List Price: Price: $30.00 You Save: $15.00 (33%) DescriptionThis extensively revised edition of Thurman Wilkins’s masterful and engaging biography - well illustrated in color and black-and-white - draws on new information and recent scholarship to place Thomas Moran more securely in the milieu of the Gilded Age. It also portrays more fully the controversies that surrounded the art of Moran’s time, as he became "the Dean of American Painters." The American West was the subject of Thomas Moran’s greatest artistic triumphs - Yosemite, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Zion Canyon, the Virgin River, Colorado’s Mountain of the Holy Cross, and the Grand Tetons - but his travels with Ferdinand V. Hayden’s geological surveys of the Upper Yellowstone were matched by trips to his native Britain and to Venice, Florida, the Spanish Southwest, and Old Mexico. These scenes inspired memorable landscapes and seascapes, as did the sojourns of the Moran family in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and East Hampton, Long Island, when they retreated from the demands of the New York art scene. In the 1880s Moran and his artist wife, Mary Nimmo Moran, also threw themselves into the etching craze of the period, creating some of the finest prints produced in the United States. Moran was an artist happy in his work. He wrote, "I have always held that the grandest, most beautiful, or wonderful in nature, would, in capable hands, make the grandest, most beautiful, or wonderful pictures." The New York Times said of the first edition of this unique account of his life, "Moran’s mastery comes through clearly and awesomely and often, pleasurably." Readers will find the new edition equally enjoyable. Moran Thomas News
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