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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 ... Read more

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An Amazing Book
My wife and I were looking for a Thomas Moran book with LOTS of reproductions of his pictures. This book appeared to be what we were looking for. I had Amazon find a copy for me and I gave it to my wife as a birthday present. It was perfect. Lots of reproductions. Lots of good information. Well-organized.

Moran is a favorite
This book is the next best thing to seeing a Moran in a Museum. I'm a landscape artist and love his work. The book took me out West where Moran painted and made me feel the experience. A fantastic experience! ... Read more

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where's the color?
A bit of a major disappointment for a book with good B/W illustrations, this is a book about one of the great colorist painters of landscape art. Disheartened.

thomas moran and the american west
This is one of the most extensive books on Thomas Moran's life. The Smithsonian recently published it (1992). It also has an excellent assortment of pictures of his works. For a complete overview of his work and life, this is the book to have. ... Read more

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Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1995
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Title: Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West. (book reviews)
Author: Lary M. Dilsaver
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1993
Publisher: American Geographical Society
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Rarely 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. ... Read more