Thomas Moran papers
name: label: Creator
content: Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926
topic: label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters -- California -- Santa Barbara
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- Santa Barbara
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed 1984 with other selected art related papers form the Gilcrease Institute.
creator: label: Creator
content: Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; Santa Barbara, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Reels (ca. 1900 items (on 5 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1870-1947
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.morathop
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 2772, 3275-3276 & 3282-3283 available at Archives of American Art offices, the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2772: Sketches, watercolors, prints, and manuscripts.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 3275-3276, 3282-3283: An autobiographical sketch; biographical material; letters to his wife, 1874; awards and certificates; transcript of a journal kept in Fort Ellis, July and August 1871; a journal kept on a trip to Mexico, 1882-1883; notebooks containing account records and lists of paintings, 1873-1922; Ruth Moran's notebooks containing records of her father's work; ca. 1500 sketches; photographs of Moran and of his paintings; a photograph of Mary Nimmo Moran; typescripts of articles on Moran; a thesis by Samuel Sachs II, "Thomas Moran-Drawings and Watercolors"; clippings; and exhibition catalogs and announcements.