The Juniata, Evening
1864
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 50.8 x 76.2 cm (20 x 30 in.) framed: 79.38 × 105.09 × 11.75 cm (31 1/4 × 41 3/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Max and Heidi Berry and Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation
Accession Number
2010.107.1
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...