Half-Dome, View from Moran Point
Thomas Moran
1887
Medium
Etching on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.8 × 20.7 cm (11 3/4 × 8 3/16 in.); Plate: 32.5 × 23 cm (12 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 39.7 × 30.2 cm (15 11/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129530
About the Artist
Thomas Moran · 1837–1926
Thomas Moran (1837–1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School whose dramatic paintings of the American West played a pivotal role in the creation of the national parks. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he emigrated with his family to Philadelphia as a child. He was largely self-taught, though he apprenticed briefly with a wood engraver and studied the work of J.M.W...