A Landscape after M. B. Foster / Thomas Moran

Curatorial Remarks

Etching and drypoint. Sandra Pauly, Henry Luce Foundation Curatorial Scholar for Moran Collection Research 3.16.22

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Title(s):

A Landscape after M. B. Foster

Creator(s):

Thomas Moran (Formerly attributed to)

Myles Birket Foster (After)

Culture:

American

Date:

1856

Period:

Hudson River School

Materials/Techniques:

printing ink on paper

Paper/Support:

Landscape; single-sided Primary support: 0.099- 0.100. Secondary support: 0.528- 0.530 mm. Back mount: 0.326- 0.358 mm. Overmount: 1.172- 0.198 mm Primary support is a taupe-grey, thin, machine-made paper (resembles newsprint). The secondary support and back mount are both wove, cotton bristol paper; light cream in color. The overmount has a wood pulp core covered with colored machine-made artist paper; cream/yellow in color on front

Classification:

Prints

Object Type:

Etching

Accession No:

14.400

Previous Number(s):

1426.400; 39100

Department:

Art

Not On View

Dimensions

Overall:

Height: 6 27/64in. (16.3cm)
Width: 6 9/64in. (15.6cm)

Image:

Height: 3 1/4in. (8.3cm)
Width: 3 7/8in. (9.8cm)

About the Creator(s)

From Gilcrease Museum:

Creator:

Thomas Moran

Biography:

"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."

Role(s):

Formerly attributed to

From Gilcrease Museum:

Creator:

Myles Birket Foster

Role(s):

After

Marks and Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Notes in the artist's hand; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Nº 1. 1st plate" in upper left on recto; Inscribed in print in black ink, "1 A LANDSCAPE. 1856. Mr. Moran's first plate. Etched after a wood cut by Birket Foster. 3¼x3¾" in lower center on verso; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "My first plate. after Foster. 1856 about" on mount in lower center on recto

Signed: Signed by hand in pencil, "T.M. 1856" in lower right on recto

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black, blue, buildings, clouds, construction, forest, gray (color), grey, Items included in the Henry Luce Foundation 2020-2022 project, ivory, laid paper, landscapes (representations), male artist, plants, Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran artworks included in the Henry Luce Foundation 2020-2022 project, tower, trees

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Moran, Thomas. A Landscape after M. B. Foster. 14.400. 1856. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://dci-collections.gilcrease.org/object/14400 (08/15/2017).

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