Thomas Moran, the field sketches, 1856-1923
By: Anne Morand ; with an introduction by Joan Carpenter Troccoli.
Contributors: Morand, Anne, 1951-
Series: Gilcrease-Oklahoma series on Western art and artists ;; v. 4
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press for the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926 -- Themes, motives -- Catalogs.
Description: This illustrated catalog of Thomas Moran's field sketches includes an interpretive essay tracing the artist's seventy-year career in the field; a chronological, stylistic, and geographical survey of his fieldwork; and an illustrated checklist of the 1,080 sketches in public collections.

Moran is best known for his work in the American West during the post-Civil War expansion, particularly in what would become Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Yosemite national parks. Yet this virtuoso painter and draftsman also travelled in search of inspiration in Pennsylvania, New York's Long Island, Florida, Wisconsin, Mexico, England, Scotland, Wales, France, and Italy, returning repeatedly to favorite subjects.

An almost compulsive desire to sketch refined his innate skill as one of America's finest landscape artists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-305) and index.