Thomas Moran, the field sketches, 1856-1923 / Anne Morand ; with an introduction by Joan Carpenter Troccoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926.

Contributor:

Morand, Anne, 1951-

Series:

Gilcrease-Oklahoma series on western art and artists ; v. 4.

Gilcrease-Oklahoma series on Western art and artists ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926--Themes, motives--Catalogs.

Moran, Thomas.

Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926.

Themes, motives.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

xii, 313 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press for the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, [1996]

Summary:

This illustrated catalog of Thomas Moran's field sketches includes an interpretive essay tracing the artist's seventy-year career in the field; a chronological, stylistic, and geographical survey of his fieldwork; and an illustrated checklist of the 1,080 sketches in public collections. Moran is best known for his work in the American West during the post-Civil War expansion, particularly in what would become Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Yosemite national parks. Yet this virtuoso painter and draftsman also travelled in search of inspiration in Pennsylvania, New York's Long Island, Florida, Wisconsin, Mexico, England, Scotland, Wales, France, and Italy, returning repeatedly to favorite subjects. An almost compulsive desire to sketch refined his innate skill as one of America's finest landscape artists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-305) and index.

ISBN:

080612704X

OCLC:

31865549