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Thomas Moran - The Field Sketches, 1856-1923 (Hardcover, New)
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Thomas Moran - The Field Sketches, 1856-1923 (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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