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.
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