Tower at Tower Falls, Yellowstone
Thomas Moran
1872
Medium
watercolor and gouache over graphite on blue laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 36.2 × 26.4 cm (14 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Florian Carr Fund
Accession Number
2012.93.1
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...