Rare Thomas Moran watercolor to be unveiled at the Amon Carter Museum
Thomas Moran (18371926), Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, ca. 1879, watercolor and graphite on paper, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 2020.1
FORT WORTH, TX
.- This summer, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art will unveil the acquisition of a rare watercolor, Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah (ca. 1879) by Thomas Moran in an exhibition that will explore the origin of the worka little-known story of the artists westward journey along the transcontinental railroadwithin the context of both the history and the art of the period, as well as the artists renowned career. The new acquisition will be exhibited alongside a variety of Morans work including an oil painting and prints from the museums collection as well as contemporaneous photographs, watercolors, and ephemera, illuminating the life and cultural back
Amon Carter Museum to unveil rare Thomas Moran watercolor this summer
Feb 24, 2021 |
In the summer of 2021, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art is set to unveil the watercolor
Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah (ca. 1879) by Thomas Moran in an exhibition that will explore the origin of the work a little-known story of the artist’s westward journey along the transcontinental railroad within the context of both the history and the art of the period, as well as Moran’s renowned career.
The newly acquired watercolor will be exhibited alongside a variety of Moran’s work, including an oil painting and prints from the museum’s collection as well as contemporaneous photographs, watercolors and ephemera “illuminating the life and cultural backdrop of one of America’s most important landscape painters,” according to a press release from the museum.
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