1. Thomas Moran was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains.
17 Facts About Thomas Moran
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Thomas Moran was a younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio.
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Thomas Moran's father belonged to a family of handloom weavers.
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Thomas Moran wanted a better future to his family, so they moved to the United States in 1844, when young Thomas was 7 years old.
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Thomas Moran found the engraving process "tedious" and spent his free time working on his own watercolors.
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Thomas Moran traveled to England in 1862 to see Turner's work.
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The height of his career coincided with the popularity of chromolithography, which Thomas Moran used to make color prints of his works, so that they could be widely distributed.
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Thomas Moran was one of the leaders of the etching revival in the United States and Great Britain.
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Thomas Moran was married to Scottish born Mary Nimmo Thomas Moran, an etcher and landscape painter.
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Thomas Moran's brother John was a pioneer in artistic photography.
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Thomas Moran died in Santa Barbara, California on August 25,1926.
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Thomas Moran even adopted a new signature: T-Y-M, Thomas "Yellowstone" Moran.
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Just one year after his introduction to the area, Thomas Moran captured the imagination of the American public with his first enormous painting of a far-western natural wonder, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, which the government purchased in 1872 for $10,000.
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Thomas Moran went back to Yellowstone with Jackson in 1892.
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Thomas Moran was elected to the membership of the National Academy of Design in 1884 and produced numerous works of art in his senior years.
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Thomas Moran has a painting exhibited as part of the White House collection.
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The Thomas Moran House in East Hampton, New York is a National Historic Landmark.