Thomas Moran | |
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 Thomas Moran by Napoleon Sarony | |
| Born | February 12, 1837 |
| Died | August 25, 1926 (aged 89) Santa Barbara, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Landscape painting |
| Movement | Hudson River School, Rocky Mountain School |
| Spouse | Mary Nimmo Moran |
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth, took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Thomas Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape, in particular, the American West.[1]
Moran along with Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, and William Keith are sometimes referred to as belonging to the Rocky Mountain School of landscape painters because of all of the Western landscapes made by this group.[2]
- ^ "The Lure of the West". University of Virginia, American Studies. Archived from the original on April 30, 1997. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
- ^ Kinsey, Joni Louise (1992). Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 43–92. ISBN 1-56098-170-9.