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The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

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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
Description: Implication: An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History
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...
Author
Alan C. Braddock
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© Yale University Press
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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
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Description: Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources
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John Davis, Michael Leja
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Copyright© 2020, Terra Foundation for American Art
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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00199.005
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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
Description: The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875
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...
Author
Rebecca Bedell
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2001 Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.123-145
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00117.010
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Chapter subject tags:Natural historyLandscape painting, AmericanRock formationsCoastal archaeologyGeological surveys
1. “Curious Historical Artistic Data”: Art History and Western American Art
Nancy K. Anderson
Description: Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West
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...
Author
Nancy K. Anderson
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1992 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.1-35
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00038.004
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Chapter subject tags:West (U.S.)--In artAmerica--Discovery and exploration--Pictorial worksReality in artArt and historyArt criticism--History
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...
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery
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:
Author
Howard R. Lamar
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2008 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.163-187
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00075.013
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Chapter subject tags:Art, AmericanArt museumsPolitics in artArt and scienceEmigration and immigration

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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
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LocationNew-York Historical Society
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Creator rolePainter
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Creator rolePainter
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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
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Object typePainting
MaterialsPencil, watercolor, and opaque color on paper
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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1893
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
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https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/012344
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