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Property from an American Collector

Thomas Moran

Grand Canyon, Arizona (A Miracle of Nature) (Zoroaster Peak, Grand Cañon)

Auction Closed

May 19, 03:38 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an American Collector

Thomas Moran

1837 - 1926

Grand Canyon, Arizona (A Miracle of Nature) (Zoroaster Peak, Grand Cañon)


signed TMoran. and dated 1913 (lower left)

oil on canvas 

20 ⅛ by 30 ⅛ inches

(51 by 76 ½ cm)


This work will be included in Phyllis Braff, Stephen L. Good and Melissa Webster Speidel's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work. We wish to thank them for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.

[with]Milch Galleries, New York
Leonard Hillis, Peoria, Illinois, 1926 (sold: Christie's, New York, December 5, 1980, lot 103)
Alexander Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
The Manoogian Collection, Detroit, Michigan
The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1990
Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Museum; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Institute of Art, Painters of the Far West as Zoroaster Peak, Grand Canyon, February 1912-March 1913, no. 11
Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Institute of Art, American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, June 1989-May 1990, no. 9, pp. 32-33, illustrated
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gilcrease Museum, Thomas Moran, September 1997-May 1998, no. 96, p. 177, illustrated