Moran Point, Yellowstone Canyon; Morans Point, Yellowstone Cañon
Creator(s):
Thomas Moran (Formerly attributed to)
Culture:
American
Date:
July 31, 1892
Period:
Hudson River School
Materials/Techniques:
watercolor and white gouache over graphite on paper
Paper/Support:
Landscape; single-sided
0.157- 0.170 mm
Machine-made wove paper, smooth surface, greenish-brown in color (discolored from a light blue, visible on the verso). Blue fibers are visible.
"Thomas Moran, landscape painter, etcher, engraver, lithographer. Born February 12, 1837, at Bolton Lancashire (England) accompanied his family to Maryland in 1844, and studied painting with his brother Edward in Philadelphia during the mid-1850. In 1862 the two Moran’s' went to England for further study and came under the influence of Turner. Thomas visited Europe again in the same decade and several times in the later years. His fame rests largely on his large paintings of scenes in the Far West, including Yellowstone Park, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. His home was in Philadelphia until 1872 when he moved to Newark (N.J.) and shortly after to NYC. In 1916 he moved to Santa Barbara (Cal.) where he died on August 26, 1926."
Notes in the artist's hand; Artist's color notations and reference notes are present in sketch; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Morans Point, Yellowstone Cañon July 31st 1892" in upper left on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "yellow & white slide" in lower center on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "95 40 [40 overwritten with 54] [54 multiplied by 40] [long division used to divide 2160 by 95] 22 [2 overwritten with 3] | 40" in upper left on verso
Signed by hand in pencil, "T.M." in upper left on recto; Signed by hand in pencil, "T.Moran." in lower left on recto
