Yellowstone River, near Rosebud
1892
Medium
Drawing
Classification
Drawing
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. William Henry Holmes
Accession Number
1930.12.24
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the rugged beauty of the American West with Thomas Moran's *Yellowstone River, near Rosebud (1892), a drawing from the Smithsonian American Museum's collection. Moran, a master of luminous landscapes and a leading figure in the Hudson River, captures the serpentine flow of the Yellowstone winding through dramatic mountains near Rosebud—a nod to the iconic Rosebud Creek region. Created two decades after Moran's pivotal 1871 expedition with the Hayden Geological Survey, this work evokes the untamed wilderness that inspired America's first national park. As a drawing, likely executed i...
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...