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Thomas Moran
American artist
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National Park Service
- In National Park Service: Origins of the U.S. national park system
…Henry Jackson and the painter Thomas Moran. Upon the expedition’s return to the East, Jackson’s images of Yellowstone and, especially, a series of spectacular large paintings of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and other wonders there executed by Moran enthralled the American public. The following year Congress authorized the…
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role in Hudson River school
- In Hudson River school
…West were the enormously successful Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt, who painted grandiose scenes of the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, and Yosemite Valley. The Hudson River school remained the dominant school of American landscape painting throughout most of the 19th century.
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