LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

20.00 in. (50.80 cm.) (height) by 30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with conjoined initials and dated 'TMoran.1896' (lower right)--inscribed 'Green River Wyoming' (lower left)

Exhibited:

New York, National Academy of Design, 71st Annual Exhibition , March 30-May 16, 1896, no. 257. (Probably) New York, Galleries of C.W. Kraushaar, Pictures by Thomas Moran, N.A., with Original Verses by Edith M. Thomas, 8 February 1897, no. 10 (as An Indian Paradise ). New York, Century Association, February 1899. Washington, D.C., National Gallery; San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection , June 4, 1989-May 27, 1990, p. 34, no. 10, illustrated (as Green River, Wyoming ). Washington, D.C., The National Gallery; Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gilcrease Museum; and Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Thomas Moran , September 28, 1997-August 30, 1998, p. 153, no. 82, illustrated (as Green River, Wyoming )

Literature:

The Gilcrease Museum Moran Papers, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1948, p. 7

Provenance:

The artist. Mr. Lockwood, acquired from the above, 1899. Biltmore Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona. Richard Manoogian, Detroit, Michigan, by 1989. The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York. Private collection, New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008