The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-30
A. D. G.
LITERARY.
THOMAS MORAN'S "GRAND CANON OF
THE FELLOWS ONE. -

The perfect success which Mr. Moran has
achieved in this wonderful painting is due to a
happy and we believe unique combination of gifts
and requirements. 1t is evI5en' that the painter
of this picture possesses in high degree the
poetic instinct, we'll as entire familiarity with
nature. He not only understands the methods OF
art but the processes and work Of nature, 30 far
as the faithful interpreter of natural scenery must
know them. In all the rush of enthusiasm and
glow of artistic power, he seems never to FORGE
tn faithful manipulation by which absolute truth
Is caught and fixed in the splendor of picturesque
art 1t is mob c to paint glorious and inspiring
poem ; it is satisfying to render nature with firm
mastery of technical detail. In the "Grand
Canon of the Yellowstone" Mr.. Moran has done
both He has produced painting which has, we
suppose, but single rival in American landscape
art in certain elements of greatness it will be
acknowledged to excel this, and it is not like
" soon to be surpassed by the work of any hand
save perhaps, that Of Thomas Moran himself
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''Sheep farming in California and is most in
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PAWS Expedition to the North Pole, and "Wo-
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medicines of language. The peculiar Western
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