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"There is a mountain in the distant West That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines, Displays a cross of snow upon its side." "The Cross of Snow"... Longfellow Born in the city of Bolton, Lancashire, England on 12 January 1837, Thomas Moran was destined to become one of America's greatest landscape artists. He and his family sailed from Liverpool, England in April 1844 to America. Thomas Moran Sr., a weaver by trade, settled the family in Philadelphia...one of the textile centers of the coun ...

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Thomas Moran images and biography Join the ARTCHIVE PATRON PROGRAM. For your donation, receive benefits including two copies of a CD-ROM of this entire site. (1837-1926) See also: Hudson River School; American Art VIEW IMAGE LIST "...But not, as it turned out, the principal gorges. That was left to a painter of Irish ancestry, born (like Thomas Cole) in Lancashire and raised in Philadelphia: Thomas Moran. Unlike Bierstadt, this son of poor immigrant handweavers was en ...

THOMAS MORAN 1837-1926 An Arizona Sunset Near the Grand Canyon, 1898 Oil on canvas, 20 X 30" (50.80 x 76.20 cm.) Signed, lower right Museum purchase, 958-0-128 Thomas Moran apprenticed to a Philadelphia wood engraving firm, but by 1858 at the age of twenty-one, he had exhibited an oil painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Encouraged by the marine painter, James Hamilton, Moran traveled to London in 1861, where he was deeply impressed by the dynamic effects and glowi ...

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