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Grand Canyon in Stormy Weather, Arizona

Thomas Moranca. 1908

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Horizontal view of the Grand Canyon with the bottom in the foreground, cliffs rising in the middle ground, and dark clouds covering the sky.

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  • Title: Grand Canyon in Stormy Weather, Arizona
  • Creator: Thomas Moran
  • Creator Lifespan: 1837/1926
  • Date Created: ca. 1908
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Gift of Thomas Moran
  • Medium: Brush and black wash, blue, brown and pink watercolor, white gouache on paper, laid down on paperboard
  • Signed: Verso of mount: Signed in graphite: T. Moran
  • Provenance: Gift of Thomas Moran
  • Paper Support: Paper, laid down on paperboard
  • Inscribed: Verso of mount: Inscribed in graphite: Canyon of the Colorado. Arizona. / T. Moran.
  • Exhibitions: Fort Worth, TX - Amon Carter Museum, "The Most Remarkable Scenery: Thomas Moran's Watercolors of the American West," May 23, 1980-July 13, 1980.
  • Dimensions: 8.2 x 12 cm (3 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
  • Bibliography: Braff, Phyllis. Thomas Moran, A Search for the Scenic (East Hampton, NY: Guild Hall Museum, 1980), 59, no. 33.Clark, Carol. Thomas Moran's Watercolors of the American West (Austin, TX and London, UK: University of Texas Press, 1980), 139, no. 112.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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