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Thomas Moran, Volume 4: The Field Sketches, 1856-1923

Thomas Moran, Volume 4: The Field Sketches, 1856-1923 - Hardcover

by Anne Morand
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Availability:In StockContributor:Anne Morand, Joan Carpenter TroccoliSeries:Thomas MoranPublish date:1996-10-15Pages:325
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806127040ISBN-10:080612704XUPC:9780806127040Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Individual ArtistsSize:10.31 x 10.31 x 1.47 inchesWeight:4.3Product ID:SCBD5HAB56
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806127040ISBN-10:080612704XUPC:9780806127040Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Individual ArtistsSize:10.31 x 10.31 x 1.47 inchesWeight:4.3Product ID:SCBD5HAB56
Morand, Anne: -

Anne Morand (1951-2013) was the curator of Native American Art at the National Cowboy Hall and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

Troccoli, Joan Carpenter: -

Joan Carpenter Troccoli retired as Senior Scholar of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art of the Denver Art Museum in June 2012. She is the Founding Director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum, a position in which she served from 2001-05. From 1996-2001, she was Deputy Director of the Denver Art Museum. Before coming to Denver in 1995, she was a Curator of Art and subsequently Director of Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She holds a B. A. from Middlebury College and master's and doctoral degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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Anne Morand, Joan Carpenter Troccoli

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Anne Morand

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