Portrait
adhered to secondary support
Machine-made, wove, smooth watercolor paper. The lower PL corner of the support appears embossed in raking light, signifying some sort of watermark (appears to be " J Whatman 1868") Same paper as 0226.916. The secondary support is machine-made, wood pulp core with smooth calendared paper adhered to the recto and verso. Discolored to a dark cream in color, originally light cream.
"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."
Inscribed, "The Son of the evening Star - the birds again transfigured assumed The shape of mortals hand in hand they danced together on the island's craggy headlands Son of the Evening Star. Hiawatha." on mat on verso
Signed by hand in ink with colophon, "TM 1876" in lower right on recto
Moran, Thomas. Son of the Evening Star, Hiawatha. 02.911. 1876. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://dci-collections.gilcrease.org/object/02911 (03/21/2019).
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