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Distant View of the Catskills 1891 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Casilear, John William | GA | ||
Mountain Lake Scene 1883 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Casilear, John William | Jointly owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wendell S. Arrington, in honor of his parents, Joseph Earl Arrington and Genevieve T. Arrington, 1979 | GA | |
Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming Territory 1882 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | when Indians rode there. Such vividly colored western scenes proved to be a bonanza for the Union Pacific's chief rival, the Northern Pacific Railroad. Jay Cooke, the Philadelphia financier who owned the Northern Pacific, kept Moran on retainer for several years, generating nostalgic images that helped to draw thousands of greenhorns out to the... | GA | |
Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park 1873 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA | ||
Fort George Island, Florida 1878 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | In 1877, Thomas Moran traveled with his wife to Fort George Island, Florida, and made small studies of the trees and beaches, images that were radically different from his sweeping vistas of Yellowstone. Within twenty years after this painting was created, the balmy coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida had become fashionable tourist... | GA | |
Mist in Kanab Canyon, Utah 1892 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA | ||
Rainbow over the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone 1900 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA | ||
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone 1893-1901 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA | ||
The White Mountains 1874 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA | ||
Valley of Cuernavaca 1903 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Moran, Thomas | GA |
- The Hudson River School
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