EDWARD MORAN 1829 - 1901 EARLY AMERICAN SEASCAPE OIL

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EDWARD MORAN 1829 - 1901 AMERICAN SEASCAPE OIL NO RESERVE AUCTION THIS PAINTING BY EDWARD MORAN DEPICTS A ROUGH COASTAL AREA WITH SHIPS.THIS OIL PAINTING IS ON CANVAS. THERE IS NO RESTORATION,THERE IS AN OLD PATCH ON THE REVERSE.THE PAINTING SIZE IS 10''X 25''.THE PAINTING IS UNFRAMED.THIS PAINTING IS SIGNED LOWER RIGHT. 1829-1901, American painter of marine and historical subjects, b. England. He came to the United States with his family in 1844. In 1899 he completed a series of 13 paintings illustrating epochs in the maritime history of America from the landing of Leif Ericsson to the return of Admiral Dewey's fleet from the Philippines in 1899 (Pennsylvania Mus. of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia). His brother Thomas Moran, 1837-1926, was an American landscape painter, illustrator, and etcher. He accompanied the exploring expeditions of Professor F. V. Hayden to the Yellowstone River (1871) and of Major J. W. Powell down the Colorado River (1873). Subsequently, he made the illustrations on wood for both expeditions' reports and the sketches from which he painted the two large canvases now in the Capitol at Washington, D.C., The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Chasm of the Colorado. In 1884 he became a member of the National Academy of Design. As a painter Moran was strongly influenced by the art of Turner. Other examples of read more