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Thomas Moran Works Online
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Original works by Thomas Moran available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Thomas Moran at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Fisherman's Wedding Party, 1892
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Watercolor collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Online exhibit Thomas Moran: His Life and Works
Thomas Moran at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Grand Canyon
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Cliffs of Green River
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Mountain of the Holy Cross, Colorado
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
The Golden Hour, 1875
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Landscape
Bolton Art Gallery, UK
Nearing Camp, Evening on the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming, 1882
Bolton Art Gallery, UK
Sunset, Pueblo del Wape
The Coast of Florida
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Sunset, Venice
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Yellowstone Lake, 1874
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City
3 works from the exhibition Tourism and the American Landscape
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
View of Venice
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public
Autumn Landscape, ca.1865
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
Ponce de León in Florida, 1877-78
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
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Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Crystal Lake
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Shoshone Falls on the Snake River, 1900
Tower Falls, 1872
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, 1913
The Pearl of Venice, 1899
Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntington, Pennsylvania
Ancient Ruins, 1856 (note that actual JPG image is larger than displayed on the page)
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Sunset over the Sea
View of Venice
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
A Scene on Tohickon Creek: Autumn 1868, 1868
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City
3 works online
National Park Service - History and Culture
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
"Fiercely the red sun descending/Burned his way along the heavens", 1875-76
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Falls at Toltec Gorge, 1913
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Castle Butte, Green River, Wyoming Territory
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Half Dome, View from Moran Point
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Morning on the St. Johns, Florida
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Grand Canyon (Mist in the Canyon), 1915
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philbrook Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Autumn
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
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Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
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San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
The Great Salt Lake of Utah, chromolithograph
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Vermont
An Autumn Afternoon
Stark Museum of Art, Texas
2 works online
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon, 1864
The Half Dome - View from Moran Point, 1887
The Huntington Library, California
The Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee
Town Pond - Easthampton, 1901
(Note: Images are generally larger than displayed on the museum's web page. Here is a link to the jpg image.)
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville
On the Catawissa Creek, 1862
Virtual Museum of Canada
Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming Territory, 1882
Virtual Museum of Canada
Mist in Kanab Canyon, Utah, 1892
Virtual Museum of Canada
Shin-Au-Av-Tu-Weap (God Land), Canyon of the Colorado, Utah, ca.1872-73
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Nearing Camp, Evening on the Upper Colorado River
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Thomas Moran at The Art Renewal Center
Thomas Moran at The Artchive
Thomas Moran at The Athenaeum 
Numerous works online by Moran
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
California State University WorldImages Database
Thomas Moran at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The History Project at U.C. Davis
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
A Century of Grand Canyon Art
Angelsmist
Illustrated biography
Art of the West Magazine
3 paintings of Yellowstone
Ellen's Place
Mount Shasta Companion
Scroll partway down for a couple of illustrations of Mount Shasta
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Resource Library Magazine
Resource Library Magazine
Resource Library Magazine
Acoma, 1904
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains
look inside
Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West
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