Thomas Moran, the field sketches, 1856-1923 /
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. Mo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press for the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa,
©1996.
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| Series: | Gilcrease-Oklahoma series on western art and artists ;
v. 4. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 313 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Awards: | National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for art book, 1997. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 080612704X 9780806127040 |