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21 Feb - 19 May 2002
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Introduction
| Room Guide
| Maps
| Timeline
| Biographies
| Literature
| Events
Bierstadt
| Church
| Cole
| Cropsey
| Durand
| Gifford
| Heade
| Kensett
| Lane
| Moran
Thomas Moran
Born 12 February 1837, Bolton, Lancashire, England
Died 26 August 1926, Santa Barbara, California
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Thomas Moran's family were handloom weavers in Bolton, who moved to Philadelphia when he was seven. Like several of the painters in this exhibition, Moran was initially trained as an engraver, although he also received informal training from his brother, a marine painter, and from other notable Philadelphia artists. This group of artists also introduced Moran to the work of JMW Turner, which was to have a profound impact on Moran's career. He began exhibiting regularly in 1856, and in 1861 was elected an Academician at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The following year Moran went to England, where he studied the work of Turner at the National Gallery. Moran made his first trip to the American West in 1871, accompanying F V Hayden's expedition to the Yellowstone region. On his return he moved to Newark, New Jersey, where he painted his first grand-scale canvas of the West, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, which established him as one of the nation's foremost landscape painters.
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