Thomas Moran

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Thomas Moran
Under the Red Wall Grand Canyon of Arizona

Thomas Moran (born February 12, 1837 in Bolton , Lancashire , England , † August 25, 1926 in Santa Barbara , California , USA ) was a painter from the Hudson River School .

Life

Moran emigrated from England to America with his parents in 1844, and spent his childhood in Pennsylvania . His older brother Edward Moran also became a painter. Thomas Moran completed an apprenticeship as a xylograph and then initially became an illustrator . He later took painting lessons from James Hamilton , an admirer of William Turner . In 1861 the two brothers traveled to London . 1871-72 he took part in the Hayden expedition to what is now Yellowstone National Park . He was the first to capture his landscape as pencil sketches or in watercolors . Moran's works were presented to the congress members , who prompted the purchase of one of his monumental paintings. He made a significant contribution to the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872. The mountain Mount Moran in Grand Teton National Park was later named after the painter. Further trips then took him several times to the American West, Europe and Mexico .

Art market

Thomas Moran's paintings now reach prices of up to $ 12,000,000 in the US art market . Since the painter produced ceaselessly until he was eighty years old, his oeuvre has an attractive volume for the art trade, which also includes numerous smaller works in watercolor technique. Thomas Moran is one of the artists who were brought to the art market by the English forger Shaun Greenhalgh .

Web links

Commons : Thomas Moran  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b William Hauptman, Corinne Currat, Dominique Hoeltschi: Peindre l'Amérique - Les artistes du Nouveau Monde 1830-1900 (catalog d'exposition) . In: La Bibliothèque des Arts . 1st edition. Fondation de l'Hermitage , Lausanne 2014, ISBN 978-2-88453-186-3 , p. 169 .
  2. ↑ Christie's American Art, May 22, 2014. Retrieved November 22, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Moran, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yellowstone Moran, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter from the Hudson River School
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolton , Lancashire
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1926
Place of death Santa Barbara , California