Side of Entrance to the Great Cave, Pictured Rocks
Creator(s):
Thomas Moran (Formerly attributed to)
Culture:
American
Date:
August 6, 1860
Period:
Hudson River School
Materials/Techniques:
graphite on paper
Paper/Support:
Portrait; double- sided
0,145-0,155mm
Machine made wove paper; smooth mat surface, cafe au lait brown, tinted in vat, main image on the top side of the paper, second image on the wire side; fiber direction follows the height of the object. In transmitted light relatively even dense structure is visible, suggesting a rather short fibered furnish. The verso of the support contains the PR half of a line sketch that continues on 13.754. Same paper as 13.754 and 13.755.
"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, "Side of Entrance to the Great Cave pictured rocks" in upper right on recto
Signed by hand in pencil, "T. Moran Aug. 6, 1860" in upper right on recto
Moran, Thomas. Side of Entrance to the Great Cave, Pictured Rocks. 13.758. August 6, 1860. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://dci-collections.gilcrease.org/object/13758 (12/04/2014).
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