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Article: THOMAS MORAN ON A GRAND SCALE SAM EXHIBIT IS THE FIRST RETROSPECTIVE OF PAINTINGS BY THE MAN WHOSE WORK SPURRED CREATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 18, 1998
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Thomas Moran thought of himself as the father of our national park system, and he had reason.
One month after seeing the wonders of Yellowstone filtered through his watercolors and the photos of his traveling companion, William Henry Jackson, Congress agreed to protect the area as the nation's first national park. Art historian Nancy K. Anderson rightly called it an ``astonishing display of expeditious deliberation.''
Flush from this 1872 victory, Moran ever after signed his name Thomas Yellowstone Moran, fusing the T, Y and M in a single script letter than looks very much like a contemporary low-rider tattoo.
Moran made Yellowstone, and ...