Thomas Moran 1837-1926

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Description

Thomas Moran
Tower Falls and Sulphur Mountain, Yellowstone
signed with the artist's monogrammed signature TMoran and dated 1872, l.r.
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
9 1/2 by 13 in. (sight)
(24.1 by 33 cm)

Provenance

The artist
Robert Adams, by 1878
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Robert H. Levis II
By descent in the family (sold: Sloan's, Boston, Massachusetts, October 18, 1997, lot 1063)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

Fort Worth, Texas, The Amon Carter Museum, The Most Remarkable Scenery: Thomas Moran's Watercolors of the American West, May 1980-January 1981, no. 13

Literature

Kennedy Quarterly 5, October 1964, no. 32, illustrated p. 33
Carol Clark, Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West, Austin, Texas, 1980, p. 131, no. 55, illustrated p. 83

Catalogue Note

This watercolor will be included in Stephen Good's and Phyllis Braff's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.