About This Artwork
Thomas Moran
American, born England, 1837-1926
Summit of the Sierras1872/75
Gouache over graphite, on cream laid paper
360 x 250 mm
Gift of Mrs. Byron Harvey, 1965.852
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, Arts Club, "American Landscape,"
November 15-December 30, 1973, cat. 21.
Fort Worth,Tex., The Amon Carter Museum, "Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West," May 23-July 13, 1980, p. 2, cat. 98 (ill.); traveled to The Cleveland Museum of Art, August 5-October 5, 1980, and the Yale University Art Gallery, Cambridge, Mass., October 23, 1980-January 4, 1981.
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Thomas Moran," September 28, 1997-January 11, 1998, pp. 105 and 345, cat. 52 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier (1890–1940)," June 28-September 27, 2003, pp. 58-59, cat. 61, fig. 21.
Publication History
"Thomas Moran: Painter and Patriot," Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Herald 12:2 (1983), p. 60 (ill.).
Ownership History
Given by Mrs. Byron Harvey to the Art Institute, 1965.