Drawing, "Slight Sketch of Mountain Range, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico", May 1901
This object is resting in our storage facility.
We acquired this object in 1917
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- Object ID: 18189951
- Accession Number: 1917-17-83
- Acquired: 1917
- Short URL: http://cprhw.tt/o/2BeeR/
- Drawing, "Slight Sketch of Mountain Range, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico", May 1901. May 1901. Recto: Brush and watercolor, graphite on blue-green wove paper Verso: Graphite on blue-green wove paper.. Gift of Thomas Moran. 1917-17-83.
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- Artist: Thomas Moran
Vertical view up a gorge from the bottom of a canyon. Verso: Graphite study of a mountain range (Acoma pueblo, New Mexico).
This drawing is recto: brush and watercolor, graphite on blue-green wove paper
verso: graphite on blue-green wove paper. with the following markings: Recto: Stamped in ink, lower left: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, [Lugt 457d.]
Verso: Stamped twice in purple ink: #22099
. Its dimensions are: 37.9 x 27.3 cm (14 15/16 x 10 3/4 in.).
It is signed Signed and dated in graphite, lower left: ...TMoran May 1901...
and inscribed Recto: Inscribed, signed and dated in graphite, lower left: Looking up the trail at Bright Angel TMoran May l901/ (83) Grand Canon of Arizona ; color notes in graphite throughout.
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, center left: Acoma ; again at right: 4 1/2"
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This drawing is from United States and dated May 1901
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Gift of Thomas Moran. Its provenance is Gift of Thomas Moran (Gift) We acquired this object in 1917.
This object has been included in the following exhibitions:
- Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape, May 19 - October 22, 2006
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