Thomas Moran

by Nancy K. Anderson, Thomas P. Bruhn (Contributor), Joni L. Kinsey (Contributor)

This lavishly illustrated book - a survey of Moran's work throughout his career - presents nearly one hundred of his works, reproduced in color, along with essays by leading authorities that explore his virtuosity in various fields.
The book begins with four interpretive biographical essays by Nancy K. Anderson that introduce sections of color plates of works from the major periods in Moran's professional career. A fully illustrated chronology of Moran's life and work accompanies this presentation. Thomas P. Bruhn then discusses Moran's etchings, engravings, and lithographs, and Joni L. Kinsey describes Moran's career as an illustrator. The book also includes three appendices that reproduce, for the first time, a portfolio of fifteen views commissioned by the Prang Chromolithographic Company; Moran's "Opus List"; and a firsthand account of Moran's 1873 trip to the Grand Canyon, written by Justin E. Colburn, a New York Times correspondent.

Genres: Art

400 pages, Hardcover

First published June 15, 1997

Reviews

[Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.) · Rating 5 out of 5]

While in Washington, D.C., this week, I spent several hours in the National Gallery of Art revisiting much of my favorite art (the American Hudson River School, British landscapes and portraiture, and French Impressionism, etc.). My visit this week made me recall the visit I made in the late 1990s and saw an exhibition at the National Gallery of much of the landscape paintings by Thomas Moran. This book was my 'souvenir' of that visit, and I find myself every couple of years sitting down and paging through this huge coffee-table book and enjoying his artworks all over again. It was this man's paintings that were largely responsible for the establishment of Yellowstone National Park, and Mt. Moran in Grand Teton National Park is named for him as well. Some of his large landscapes hang in the U.S. Congress and in the Main Department of the Interior building. If you're interested in the American Hudson River School of art movement, this collection is a great introduction. 5/5 stars.

[Kim Adamache · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful book!

[Laura]

Beautiful paintings by the "Father of the National Parks." One of the most important landscape painters of the late nineteenth century, an early painter of Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.