The American Scene including Important Photographs from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
The American Scene including Important Photographs from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
Property from a Private Collection, Japan
Thomas Moran
Grand Canyon
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May 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Japan
Thomas Moran
1837-1926
Grand Canyon
signed TMoran with the artist's thumbprint and dated 1919 (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 by 20 in.
35.6 by 50.8 cm.
Executed in 1919.
This painting will be included in Stephen L. Good, Phyllis Braff and Melissa Webster Speidel's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
Private Collection (acquired before 1985)
Private Collection, Japan (acquired by descent from the above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Thomas Moran first visited the Grand Canyon in 1873 and discovered a landscape ideally suited to his romantic vision of the American West. He returned there repeatedly throughout his career and painted the canyon’s fascinating vistas until the end of his life. His daughter Ruth wrote: “To him it was all grandeur, beauty, color and light–nothing of man at all but nature, virgin, unspoiled and lovely” (as quoted in Carol Clark, Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West, Fort Worth, Texas, 1989, p. 21). Painted in 1919, the present work is a mature example of Moran’s celebrated subject.