~10 Thomas Moran The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1872...

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Description: The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

TitleThe Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Creator nameMoran, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas mounted on aluminum

Dimensions84 × 144 1/4 in. (213 × 366.3 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. [Lent by the Department of the Interior Museum, Washington, D.C.]

Accession numberL.1968.84.1

SubjectsGrand Canyon of the Yellowstone (Wyo.)America--Discovery and exploration--Pictorial worksNational parks and reservesHudson River school of landscape paintingGeology in artLandscape painting, American--19th century

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8. Nature: Wilderness Trouble

Alan C. Braddock

Implication: An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History

In a classic study of Keywords in English literature and cultural history, Raymond Williams described “nature” as “perhaps the most complex word in the language,” owing to its many senses and meanings...

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Alan C. Braddock

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00341.9

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Chapter subject tags:EcocriticismEcology in artLandscape painting, American--19th centuryChurch, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900Wilderness areas in artOlana State Historic Site (Hudson, N.Y.)

4. The Gilded Age, 1870–1885

John Davis, Michael Leja

Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources

When former Union general Ulysses S. Grant was elected president on the Republican ticket in 1868, defeating the sitting Democratic candidate, Andrew Johnson, many hoped that he would be able push through the reforms of Reconstruction ...

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John Davis, Michael Leja

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

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Chapter subject tags:Artists' writingsUnited States--In artArts and societyNaturalism in artArt criticism

Chapter Six: Thomas Moran and the Western Surveys

Rebecca Bedell

The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875

~IN EARLY JULY 1871 Thomas Moran (1837–1926), a slight, wiry thirty-four year old, alighted from a stagecoach in Virginia City, Montana Territory.Important critical writings on Moran include...

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Rebecca Bedell

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Natural historyLandscape painting, AmericanCoastal archaeologyGeological surveys

1. “Curious Historical Artistic Data”: Art History and Western American Art

Nancy K. Anderson

Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West

In a recent essay Wanda Corn noted that before achieving respectability late in the twentieth century, American art had long suffered as “the impoverished, unwanted stepchild of art history.” Wanda M. Corn, “Coming of Age: Historical...

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Nancy K. Anderson

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

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A Changing America and the Emergence of a Modern Democratic Nation

Howard R. Lamar

Description: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University...

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In the fall of 1773, James Boswell and Dr. Samuel Johnson embarked on a tour to the Hebrides in Scotland. On their way they spent two days at Armadale on the Isle of Skye, waiting for a favorable wind for their vessel to carry them northward. While at Armadale, Boswell wrote:

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Howard R. Lamar

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

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