Oil painting -> List of Painters -> Thomas Moran

Early Days:

   Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 - August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was a painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Thomas Moran along with Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, and William Keith are sometimes referred to as belonging to the Rocky Mountain School of landscape painters because of all of the Western landscapes made by this group.

Personal Details Name Thomas Moran Place of birth Bolton, Lancashire, England Date of Birth February 12, 1837 Date of Death August 25, 1926 (aged 89) Nationality American, born in England, and raised in Pennsylvania, USA Field Landscape painting Movement Hudson River School, Rocky Mountain School

Career:

   Moran's family emigrated from England in 1844 and settled in Pennsylvania. He began his artistic career as a teenage apprentice to the Philadelphia wood-engraving firm Scattergood & Telfer. After two years of training, he produced illustrations and works in watercolor and began developing lithographs of landscapes around the Great Lakes in the 1860s.

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