Portrait; single-sided
0.188- 0.191 mm
Machine-made, wove, smooth surface, warm taupe in color (discolored from the original grey color visible along the bottom edge and verso). The media. The media is located on the felt side of the support; wire side on the verso.
"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, "Would not this look well full page size?" in lower left on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Cave of the Winds" in lower center on recto; Inscribed by hand in ink, "Under the American Fall from Goat Island June 1881" in lower right on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "full page illustration is 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in" in upper center on verso; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "9 x 6 [21 multiplied by 6] [126 divided by 9] 14" in lower center on verso
Signed by hand in ink, "T.M." in lower right on recto
Moran, Thomas. Under the American Fall from Goat Island. 02.899. June 1881. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://dci-collections.gilcrease.org/object/02899 (07/27/2017).
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