Search results for: “Thomas Moran”
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Moran’s Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon
Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon, Thomas Moran, oil on canvas, roughy 30 x 45″ ( 77 x 115 cm), in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art (click on image for an enlargement). There is a larger image on Wikipedia, though the color is off. I’ve taken that image and color corrected it to…
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Woodland Interior with Rocky Stream, Thomas Moran
Woodland Interior with Rocky Stream, Thomas Moran, oil on canvas, 36 x 29 inches ( 92 x 74 cm). Link is to the Art Renewal Center, which has a zoomable image. I think their image may be a little too dark; I sourced the image above from a site that sells art prints. Happy belated…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Moran’s Falls at Toltec Gorge
Falls at Toltec Gorge, Thomas Moran Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; 1000 Museums has version online that you can download here; original is in the Oklahoma City Museum (no collections online). When Moran turns his Turner-influenced eye to the rough textures of the American landscape, the results are usually amazing. I…
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Thomas Moran
Though he was considered part of the Hudson River School of artists, it was for his evocation of the drama of the landscape in the western United States that Thomas Moran is best known. His watercolor location sketches of the landscape in Wyoming (image above, 4th down), along with photographs by William Henry Jackson, were…
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Eye Candy for Today: Moran’s Green River Cliffs
Green River Cliffs, Wyoming, Thomas Moran On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. The most striking of Moran’s dramatic paintings of the American West —which is saying something. For more, see my post on Thomas Moran.
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Artists’ views of Venice #2
This is a follow up to my previous article on Artists’ views of Venice, just to add more artists without an ungainly long string of images. It could have been five times as long. [Images above (links to my articles): JMW Turner (with detail), John Singer Sargent, Anna Richards Brewster, James Whistler, William Merritt Chase,…