Artist Thomas Moran
Thomas
Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and
printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the
Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth,
took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a
younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a
studio. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Thomas Moran was hired
as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was
appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him
launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape, in
particular, the American West.Moran along with Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, and
William Keith are sometimes referred to as belonging to the Rocky Mountain
School of landscape painters because of all of the Western landscapes made by
this group.
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