Picnic Rock, Sawkill (lower sketch); Sawkill (upper sketch)
Creator(s):
Thomas Moran (Formerly attributed to)
Culture:
American
Date:
August 3, 1865
Period:
Hudson River School
Materials/Techniques:
graphite on paper
Paper/Support:
Portrait; one-sided
0.179- 0.186 mm
Machine made, wove, smooth, dark cream in color. The drawing is located on the smooth side. Transmitted light reveals a distinct wire mesh pattern.
"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; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "34" in center right on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Saw Kill Aug 3-65" in center right on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "33" in lower left on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Picnic Rock Saw Kill Aug 3-65" in lower right on recto
Signed by hand in pencil, "T.M" in center right on recto; Signed by hand in pencil, T.M." in lower right on recto
