Thomas Moran

Moran, Thomas. Thomas Moran: the Field Sketches, 1856-1923 (Gilcrease-Oklahoma Series on Western Art and Artists, Vol 4). Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, September, 1996.
Unused/Unread/Unmarked Book.; Thomas Moran Ser. ; 10.3 x 10.3 x 1.5 inches; 313 pages; Thomas Moran: The Field Sketches, 1856-1923, Vol. 4--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.. 080612704X.

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Moran, Thomas; Anderson, Nancy K. ; with Contributions by Thomas P. Bruhn, Joni L. Kinsey, and Anne Morand. Thomas Moran. New Haven, Connecticut, U. S. A.: Yale Univ Pr, 1997.
0300073259, Text pristine, clean & unmarked, tight to spine - 400 pages. Book description: "Thomas Moran's paintings of the American West secured his place as one of the most important landscape painters of the late nineteenth century. 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. "
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Moran, Thomas (Illustrated by): THE WONDERS OF THE WEST. No. 2. More About The Yellowstone (In an Original Issue of Scribner's Monthly for February, 1872) New York New York: Scribner & Co., February, 1872 1872
Good Eleven Illustrations of the Yellowstone Wildnerness and Hot Springs, Some Signed in the Plate By Thomas Moran

Nine page article on Yellowstone with illustrations by the great Western American landscape artist Thomas Moran leads off this original issue of Scribner's Monthly, An Illustrated Magazine. Issue is Vol. 3, No. 4 for February, 1872. The article on Yellowstone is Part 2, the first part having appeared in a previous issue of the magazine not present in this small grouping of individual issues I have been offering. The pieces on Yellowstone were notable for having had the illustrations of Moran. Several of the illustrations in this second part are signed in the plate by Moran or with his initials. Following this article is a fascinating one on "The Mormons and their Religion." This article also profusely illustrated with scenes of Salt Lake City, Utah and with portraits of Mormon leaders including Brigham Young. Considerable other varied content in this quite well preserved magazine. The blue paper covers are still attached along with most of the spine material. Back cover has vertical tear up about a third of the page from bottom but no losses result. Second full page ad for songs on one side and promotion for the Montly on the other side is mostly torn away, but otherwise the content of the issue is intact. Sporadic age spotting but otherwise the content is quite clean. The Yellowstone illustrations almost entirely unaffected by the spotting. This magazine a scarce survivor. First Edition Printed Wrapper Octavo

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WILKINS, THURMAN. Thomas Moran: The Field Sketches, 1856-1923. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 1996.

325 pages. This extensively revised edition of Thurman Wilkins's masterful and engaging biography - well illustrated in color and black-and-white - draws on new information and recent scholarship to place Thomas Moran more securely in the milieu of the Gilded Age. It also portrays more fully the controversies that surrounded the art of Moran's time, as he became "the Dean of American Painters." The American West was the subject of Thomas Moran's greatest artistic triumphs - Yosemite, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Zion Canyon, the Virgin River, Colorado's Mountain of the Holy Cross, and the Grand Tetons - but his travels with Ferdinand V. Hayden's geological surveys of the Upper Yellowstone were matched by trips to his native Britain and to Venice, Florida, the Spanish Southwest, and Old Mexico. These scenes inspired memorable landscapes and seascapes, as did the sojourns of the Moran family in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and East Hampton, Long Island, when they retreated from the demands of the New York art scene. In the 1880s Moran and his artist wife, Mary Nimmo Moran, also threw themselves into the etching craze of the period, creating some of the finest prints produced in the United States. Moran was an artist happy in his work. He wrote, "I have always held that the grandest, most beautiful, or wonderful in nature, would, in capable hands, make the grandest, most beautiful, or wonderful pictures." The New York Times said of the first edition of this unique account of his life, "Moran's mastery comes through clearly and awesomely and often, pleasurably." Readers will find the new edition equally enjoyable. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.

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