2011 Annual Report - National Gallery of Art

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Thomas Mor an, Green River Cliffs, Wyoming, Gift of the Milligan and Thomson Families
10 COLLECTING PAINTINGS Two exceptional paintings by Thomas Moran, one of the most celebrated landscape painters of the nineteenth century, entered the collection during the fiscal year. The first, The Juniata, Evening, was completed following a railroad excursion Moran and his brothers took to central Pennsylvania during the summer of 1864. Prior to his first journey to the American West in 1871, Moran produced a remarkable series of Pennsylvania landscapes that clearly reflect his admiration for the work of English artist J. M. W. Turner. As a young artist learning his craft, Moran frequently sketched in the forests surrounding Philadelphia, his home. In July 1864 he ventured further, traveling to central Pennsylvania where the Juniata, a major tributary of the Susquehanna, flowed through lush meadows and steep sandstone cliffs. The Juniata, Evening is filled with closely observed detail: grazing sheep, farm dwellings, a lone traveler, and most remarkably, a foreground vignette of an artist at work. With palette in hand and color box open on the ground, the artist (possibly Moran) is shown working on a landscape that duplicates the scene before the viewer. George Frederick Tyler, a Philadelphia banker and railroad executive, purchased The Juniata, Evening from the artist in September 1864. Privately owned ever since, the painting had never been exhibited publicly until placed on view in the American galleries at the Gallery following its acquisition with generous funds provided by Max and Heidi Berry and Ann and Mark Kington. Seven years after completing The Juniata, Evening, Moran traveled to the far reaches of the western frontier and found the subject that would change the course of his career. Early in 1871 he had been hired to illustrate a magazine article describing a wondrous region called Yellowstone. Before reaching Yellowstone, Moran stepped off the train in Green River, Wyoming, and was captivated by the bands of color that centuries of wind and water had revealed in the cliffs towering above the dusty railroad town. He went on to join F. V. Hayden’s expedition to Yellowstone and complete the watercolors that would later play a key role in the Congressional decision to set aside Yellowstone as America’s first national park. Over the years, however, the subject Moran returned to repeatedly was the western
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PAINTINGS Courbet, Gustave, French,
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CHANGES OF ATTRIBUTION The followin
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