Thomas Moran
Subtitle: artist of the mountains
By: by Thurman Wilkins with the help of Caroline Lawson Hinkley ; foreword by William H. Goetzmann.
Contributors: Hinkley, Caroline Lawson.
Edition: 2nd ed., rev. & enl.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Norman, Okla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926.; Artists -- United States -- Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-416) and index.