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Article: Vivid views of America by Thomas Moran. (landscape painter)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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In 1871, Thomas Moran accompanied the first government-sponsored expedition to Yellowstone. The drawings and watercolors he brought back from that trip helped convince Congress that this strange land of geysers and hot springs should be preserved.
The artist went on to create equally stunning images of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, the Colorado Rockies, the Grand Tetons, and the desert Southwest. Justly celebrated as one of the premier painters of the American West, Moran was an artist of wide-ranging interests whose major works include Pennsylvania forest scenes, industrial landscapes, views of Venice, seascapes, and studies of New York's Long Island.
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