Thomas Moran

Thomas Moran was an American painter who was a part of the Hudson River School in New York. He became a chief illustrator for Scirbner’s Monthly, which catapulted him into success as one of the leading American landscape painters. He is most well known for his landscapes of the US West.

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Moran’s sketches of Yellowstone were instrumental in drumming up public support for establishing Yellowstone National Park. This was also his first large-scale commercial success as an artist.

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