The Iconographical Significance in Selected Western Subjects Painted by Thomas Moran
Description:
The popular image of the West in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries incorporates radically opposing images: the West is viewed as a Garden of Eden at times, but it is also frequently seen as violent, a land inimical to man. The region both attracted and repelled. Among those attracted were artists who carried back some of the first images of the land. Thomas Moran (1837-1926) became associated quite early with the West because a pair of his paintings of western canyons was purchased b…
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Date:
August 1978
Creator:
Patrick, Darryl
Partner:
UNT Libraries