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Birth
1837 (Bolton, Lancashire, England)
Death
1926 (Santa Barbara, California)
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania/California
Often Known For
landscape and marine painting, topography
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Illustrators
Hudson River School Painters
Painters of Grand Canyon
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Paris Pre 1900
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Regarded as the primary artist of the final decades of Western
exploration, Thomas Moran made eight trips West between 1871 and 1892
and created a body of oil and watercolor sketches that remain a primary
record of that period. In fact, his painting was so associated with the
West that he was referred to as T. Yellowstone Moran. In 1873, he began
signing his name with a monogram that incorporated "Y" into his
initials, and from 1911, he added a thumbprint.
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