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Inspiration From Artists Wk 113 bonus artist : Thomas Moran.
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Welcome to this weekends bonus artist thread the featuring Artist is :
ThomasMoran 1837 - 1926 was an American artist painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York, his work often featured the Rock Mountains . He was the younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran , with whom he shard a studio.
A talented illustrator and exquisite colourist Thomas was hired as an illustrator at Scriber’s Monthly, during late 1860 he was appointed the Chief Illustrator for the magazine. It was this position that helped launch his career as a painter of the of the American landscape in particular the American West.
Information from Wikipedia.
I hope you enjoy my selection of his work
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Don't know about you, but I'm deeply jealous of painters who had such fantastic landscapes to challenge them; what a contrast this painter is to the Turner-esque work we saw earlier/yesterday. Note I don't say that one was better than the other - I wonder about the size of these originally: if they were of a scale to fit their subject, they must have been deeply impressive to those who had not yet seen the mountains and falls depicted - I've never seen them, and they're certainly impressing me!
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I’ve seen his work before - it was featured in a recent programme on the history and art of the American Mid-West. He was a British born artist (who studied the works of J W Turner) and his painting of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone - Paul’s second image above - was influential in the conservation of Yellowstone as a national park. (He was invited to accompany geological expeditions to Yellowstone and the Rockies in 1871 and 1874.) The painting is huge - 7ft x 12 ft - and enabled Americans at the time who had never travelled that far west to see the vast beauty of that wild area.
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Jenny thank you for the added information, if I remember correctly I think he was mentioned by Jim who said he was originally from Lancashire but I might be wrong. I was thinks about what Robert had written earlier , that led me on to how some of the artist of this period and of course the Victorian era on particular travel thousand of miles when travel took a very long time to send back paintings of the countries they were visiting. The conditions they would have painted sone of their work in must have been extremely difficult to say the least , I know they would have done sketches and studies etc and then painted them up in a studio. The logistics of moving a painting the size of the one Jenny mentioned would be a challenge for anyone other than a specialist company these day let alone back in the eighteen hundreds, visions of it strapped to the side of a stage coach trundling along . I’m really impressed with the detail of the landscapes and like most artist of his time he is trying to make it real for the people who have never or will never go there , to me realistic painting do have a place especially when conveying such information to the general public of the day. It’s so easy for us to google anywhere in the world and see photographs or even live links that we forget that the only way people as little as thirty years ago needed to use photos or see things on a documentary etc . Artists for centuries had either deliberately or unintentionally displayed the image of the world, styles of clothing etc in there painting as a background or as the actual painting.
Good heavens I’m turning into Robert and writing essays, I do jest Robert as you have many interesting things to say .
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Apparently, Dixie, he visited Venice in 1896, 1890 and 1911. He was, I have read influenced by Turner, which would fit with his Venice pictures. The one below for example - which I had to look at twice to make sure it was not the same as my previous posting..
I think one of the beauties of this series of Artistic Inspirations is that it encourages one to look a little more deeply into artists you may, otherwise, simply overlook.
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by Tony Auffret
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Thanks for the additional information Tony and I do agree since starting the thread I have looked at artist thst I would not normally bother to look at in such depth. I thought you had mentioned his Jim I looked him up at the time and added him to my list, I imagine seeing one of his paintings in reality was quite amazing, by the way thank you for the initial introduction.
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I can quite see why these huge paintings would leave one cold these days, because we've been spoiled: as Dixie D, the noted essayist, has pointed out above, previous generations would not have seen those things we now take for granted; put yourself in their shoes - easier for me than for some, because I've never travelled beyond Britain, and have not seen the vistas which the more adventurous have enjoyed! Plus - I'm remarkably unmoved by photography - don't know why, it just leaves ME cold, on the whole.
I can't say I'd have one of these on my wall, for the obvious reason that I don't live in a baronial hall with sufficient space (actually, that's not entirely true - Reeth Lodge, where I've lived for the past 23 years, was once a "gentleman's residence" - there are still parts of it with high ceilings and massive expanse of wall; just not the bit I live in - which, in that Victorian gentleman's time, was the kitchen and scullery .... I'd like to go back in time and see the house as it was before it was carved up into different bits, but had I been around then, I'd be the Under-Butler at best: it's all class, innit? Come the Revolution and we'll sort that lot aht, oh yus!....).
But I digress.
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Some remarkable scenery. The second and last are lovely. There's one wonderful phenomena within the American landscape, I find interesting, are the buttes they have scattered about the place.
I'm not too fussed on the main subject of the fourth painting, but those trees are magnificent . . .
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The top one, of those Carol's just shown I mean, is fabulous - just imagining what it looks like "in person", i.e. at full size. I like all his work - it's big, it's impactful, it may be a touch obvious I suppose and of its time, but when I get my baronial hall (never give up....) I'll happily host them.
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