Landscape; one sided
P:0.095-0.105 S:0.193-0.195
Primary Support: Machine made, wove, cream in color, fairly translucent. Transmitted light reveals even distribution of fibers. Secondary support is machine-made, slightly darker cream in color; transmitted light reveals even distribution of fibers. Same paper and top PL tear as 0276.833, 1326.953, 1326.954,
"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, "Looking East evening Falls of Schuylkill. 1870" in upper left on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "upper part grayish Blue" in lower left on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Light Cloud like smoke from an explosion radiating from under the dark Cumulus" in lower left on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Light Cloud a wooly white yellow graduating into a reddish yellow at dark Cumulus" in lower left on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Dark Cumulus with ashy gray reflected lights" in lower left on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Stratus Brownish gray with warm edges lighter than the Cumulus" in lower left on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Stratus light gray against the dark gray of Horizon but dark on the right" in lower left on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "15 Pencil" on support in upper left on recto; Inscribed by hand in sepia ink, "Pencil Sketch of a Sky." on support in lower left on recto
Signed by hand in sepia ink, "TMoran 1870" on support in lower left on recto
