The Teton Range

Title: The Teton Range
Description: As Albert Bierstadt claimed the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada for his art, so Moran made the Yellowstone region and the Grand Canyon his signature subjects. His dazzling paintings and illustrations of Yellowstone led directly to its designation in 1872 as the first national park. A native Briton and an ardent admirer of the English painter J. M. W. Turner, Moran orchestrated dynamic form and prismatic color into visual anthems to America’s scenic splendors—such as this dramatic view of the Tetons, located just south of Yellowstone and characterized by one of the country’s most picturesque mountain profiles.
Creator: Moran, Thomas
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1897
Extent: Dimensions: 30 x 45 in. (76.2 x 114.3 cm)
Spatial Coverage: Teton Range See all items with this value; Wyoming See all items with this value; North and Central America See all items with this value
Subject: mountains See all items with this value; Nature See all items with this value
Rights: This work is in the public domain.
Type: mountain landscapes (visual works) See all items with this value
Format: oil paintings (visual works); canvas paintings
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance: Bequest of Moses Tanenbaum, 1937

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