Landscape; double-sided
0,179-0,182mm
Machine made, wove paper, dark cream/grey in color, smooth, mat surface, The main image is located on the felt side of the support; wire side on verso. Fiber are oriented along the longer side of the paper. Transmitted light reveals even distribution of fibers and pronounced wire mesh pattern. Top edge of the drawing has been torn out from a bound volume. Same paper as 13. 766, 13.706, and 13.757.
"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, "Entrance to the Great Cave pictured rocks Aug 6, 1860" in lower left on recto
Signed by hand in pencil, "T. Moran" in lower right on recto; Signed by hand in pencil, "T. Moran" in lower right on verso
Moran, Thomas. Entrance to the Great Cave, Pictured Rocks. 13.765. August 6, 1860. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://dci-collections.gilcrease.org/object/13765 (12/04/2014).
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