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Thomas Moran (1837-1926), Devil's Tower
Estimate:
$1,200,000 - $2,000,000
Sold
$1,150,000
Live Auction
2014 Jackson Hole Art Auction
ARTIST
Thomas Moran
Description
Title: Devil's Tower
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20.5 x 16.25
Frame dimensions: 27.25 x 23.25 x 3
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20.5 x 16.25
Frame dimensions: 27.25 x 23.25 x 3
Condition
This painting is in overall excellent condition, and the canvas is bright and clean. Under UV minor inpainting is evident, scattered in the middle third. Some craquelure is apparent on the canvas, particularly in the sky. The gilt frame is in excellent condition and is stable. Signed lower right: (TYM cipher) ORAN
Signature
signed lower right: T(YM cipher) MORAN .1919.
Provenance
Ruth Moran, daughter of the artist, Santa Barbara, California; {Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York, acquired from the above prior to 1930}; Private Collection {Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York} Mr. and Mrs. F. Howard Walsh, Fort Worth, Texas; Walsh Family Trust, until 2006 {The Tea Leaf Art & Antiques, Irving, Texas, 2006};{Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, 2006};Private Collection, Omaha, Nebraska, 2007; Private Collection, New York
Literature
Anne Morand, Thomas Moran: The Field Sketches 1856-1923, Norman, Oklahoma: The University of Oklahoma Press, in association with the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, 1996, pp. 254-255 (The Devils Tower, graphite on paper sketch, cat. no. 819; illus. p. 255). Nancy K. Anderson, Thomas Moran, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, p. 255 (for excerpts from Moran’s letters to his wife Mary about his 1892 excursion to Devil’s Tower). Thurman Wilkins, Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains, second edition, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998, p. 267-270 (for a discussion of Moran’s 1892 trip through Wyoming).
