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Drawing, Toltec Gorge and Eva Cliff from the West, Colorado
This is a Drawing. It was created by Thomas Moran. It is dated 1892 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and watercolor, white gouache, graphite on gray wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
In 1881, Moran, under the auspices of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, traveled to the Colorado–New Mexico Territory border and made numerous drawings of the Toltec Gorge. Many of the drawings were the basis of wood-engraved illustrations for a Denver publication, the Colorado Tourist. On this trip, he traveled with the renowned photographer William H. Jackson and the writer Ernest Ingersoll, whose article on the excursion, “Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer’s Ramble in the Rockies and Beyond,” was illustrated by Moran and published in Harper’s magazine in 1885.
Wall Label from exhibition, "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
This object was
donated by
Thomas Moran.
It is credited Gift of Thomas Moran.
Its dimensions are
31.9 x 24.2 cm (12 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped on recto, lower right: Museum for the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union [Lugt 457d] Embossed water mark-reverse right edge: "Montgolfier a St. Marcel-Les-Anno..."
It is signed
Signed with initials in graphite, lower left: TM; and with monogram in ink, lower right: TM
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, upper left:Toltec Gorge & Eva Cliff / from the West
Cite this object as
Drawing, Toltec Gorge and Eva Cliff from the West, Colorado; Thomas Moran (American, b. Britain, 1837–1926); USA; brush and watercolor, white gouache, graphite on gray wove paper; 31.9 x 24.2 cm (12 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.); Gift of Thomas Moran; 1917-17-31
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
