Thomas Moran

"Father of the National Park System"

1837-1926

British-born American Landscape Painter and Illustrator Associated with the Hudson River School

Stylistically Influenced by the following Painters: H.M.W. Turner, Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand

Cause of Death - Old Age,  he died in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 90.

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 English born painter Thomas Moran is remembered as one of America's supreme landscape painters. A brilliant illustrator and superb colorist, Moran worked as an illustrated for Scribner's Monthly, Harper's and Atlantic Monthly. Moran's skill in sketching at any location, no matter how rugged, earned him the respect and admiration of other landscape painters throughout the world.

 

 Moran's greatest masterpiece is without a doubt a magnificent painting entitled "The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone,".

 

Principle Artists Associated With The Hudson River School

 

Albert Bierstadt American 1830-1902

Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848
Herman Herzog German, 1831-1932
Thomas Hill, English, 1829-1908

Thomas Moran English born American1837-1926
George Inness American, 1825-1894
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826-1900

George Loring Brown, American, 1814-1889
Thomas Chambers, English, 1808-1866

Asher B. Durand, American, 1796-1886

 

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