Thomas Moran : The Field Sketches, 1856–1923
by
Anne Morand
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
080612704X
ISBN-13
9780806127040
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
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University of Oklahoma Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 15th, 1996
Print length
325 Pages
Weight
2,030 grams
Dimensions
25.40 x 25.40 x 3.70 cms
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This illustrated catalogue of Thomas Moran's field sketches includes an essay tracing the artist's 70-year career, a chronological, stylistic and geographical survey of his fieldwork, and an illustrated checklist of his 1080 sketches in public collections.
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; an illustrated checklist of the 1080 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 traveled 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.
Most of Moran''s known field sketches are reproduced here. As described in the introduction, ""their range encompasses summary contour drawings of the spectacular topography of the American West, luminous watercolors that simultaneously fix local color and evoke the artist''s rapturous response to the natural world, and fully realized works that nevertheless preserve the intensity of Moran''s firsthand experience of his plein air subjects.""
No serious formal study of Thomas Moran can be made without reference to this volume.
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 traveled 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.
Most of Moran''s known field sketches are reproduced here. As described in the introduction, ""their range encompasses summary contour drawings of the spectacular topography of the American West, luminous watercolors that simultaneously fix local color and evoke the artist''s rapturous response to the natural world, and fully realized works that nevertheless preserve the intensity of Moran''s firsthand experience of his plein air subjects.""
No serious formal study of Thomas Moran can be made without reference to this volume.
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