A Scene on the Tohickon Creek: Autumn, 1868
Thomas Moranexpand_more
Oil on canvasexpand_more
The Frances E. Andrews Wilderness Fund, in memory of her mother Mary Hunt Andrewsexpand_more 68.82
On View in Gallery 323expand_more
Born in England, Thomas Moran came to America with his family in 1844. Moran painted this landscape shortly after returning from a European tour during which he studied the work of celebrated British landscape artist J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). This painting is number thirty-three of a suite of forty-two canvases that he produced between 1863-68 depicting scenes of rural Pennsylvania. Shade and sun, closed spaces and open—this is a painting of contrasts. It presents an idealized vision of Tohickon Creek. From the shady foreground near the creek, we look out through an arch of trees to the open sky and hazy autumn landscape in the distance.
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- Title
- A Scene on the Tohickon Creek: Autumn
- Artist Life
- 1837 - 1926
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- Artist
- Accession Number
- 68.82
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