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Thomas Moran Biography

American Hudson River School painter, engraver, etcher, illustrator, lithographer, printmaker and photographer
born 1837 - died 1926
Movement: Hudson River School, Rocky Mountain School

American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family took residence where he obtained work as an artist. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator of the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape.

Student of: Edward Moran (1829-1901).
Brother of: Edward Moran (1829-1901).
Husband of: Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899).
Uncle of: Edward Percy Moran (1862-1935).

Thomas Moran began his artist career as a teenage apprentice to the Philadelphia wood-engraving firm Scattergood and Telfer. By the mid 1850s he was drawing the firm's illustrations for publication rather than carving them and he began studying with local painter James Hamilton who introduced him to the painting of British artist J. M. W. Turner. Moran traveled to England in 1862 to see Turner paintings and he often acknowledged that artist's influence on his use of color and choice of landscapes. During the 1870s and 1880s Thomas Mora paintings for wood-engraved illustrations appeared in major magazines and gift oriented publications.
The painter was married to Scottish born Mary Nimmo Moran (1842–1899), an etcher and landscape painter. He died in Santa Barbara, California on August 26, 1926.

Thomas Moran's vision of the Western landscape was critical to the creation of Yellowstone National Park. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, which the government purchased in 1872 for $10,000. For the next two decades, he published his work in various periodicals and created hundreds of large paintings. Moran sketched many more images of the Canyon on this trip than he had in 1871, including views from the viewpoint named for him on the 1871 trip, "Moran Point." Moran was elected to the membership of the National Academy of Design in 1884 and produced numerous works of art in his senior years.