Mary Nimmo Moran

Mary Nimmo Moran
Born
Mary Nimmo

(1842-05-16)May 16, 1842
Strathaven, Scotland, United Kingdom
DiedSeptember 25, 1899(1899-09-25) (aged 57)
East Hampton, New York, US
Resting placeGoose Pond, East Hampton, New York, US
Known forEtching
Spouse
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(m. 1862)​
Children3

Mary Nimmo Moran (May 16, 1842 – September 25, 1899) was an American landscape printmaker, specializing in etchings. The first woman to prove "marriage and family were not insurmountable to success."[1] She was the first of many landscape artists and in 1880 she was known as a landscape etcher.[2] She completed roughly 70 landscape etchings, which included scenes of England and Scotland, as well as Long Island, New York; New Jersey, Florida, and Pennsylvania. In 1881, she was one of eight Americans and the first female elected as a fellow to London's Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.[3] Mary Nimmo Moran's landscape View of Newark from the Meadows is in the collection of The Newark Museum of Art.[4] She was among the earliest American Artists to explore the medium of etching.[5]

Born in Scotland, she immigrated to the United States at the age of five with her widowed father and brother; they settled in Philadelphia. She married American artist and illustrator Thomas Moran, and they had a family together.

  1. ^ "Moran". ARTe. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
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  3. ^ Engel, Lang, Gladys (1990). Etched in Memory: The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 48. ISBN 0807819085. OCLC 20825806.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Search Our Collection | Newark Museum". www.newarkmuseumart.org. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  5. ^ Francis, Marilyn G. (1983). "Mary Nimmo Moran: Painter-Etcher". Woman's Art Journal. 4 (2): 14–19. doi:10.2307/1357940. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 1357940.