We are most fortunate to have so many beautiful national parks available to us. In particular, in the western United States. I’ve been blessed to see many of them: Rocky Mountain, Badlands ...

Thomas Moran's "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone." Credit: National Parks Service Moran’s paintings of Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons and other now-familiar Western landmarks were also viewed by ...

Months ago the Department of the Interior was proud to accept for Yosemite National Park Museum a collection of 108 paintings by the late Christian Jorgensen. the Norwegian-born artist largely ...

Perhaps the earliest example of the arts impacting Yellowstone is when landscape painter Thomas Moran and photographer William Henry Jackson traveled to the area with a group of scientists in 1871.

Thomas Moran (U.S., 1837–1926), The Great Blue Spring of The Lower Geyser Basin from The Yellowstone National Park, and the Mountain Regions of Portions of Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and Utah, 1876 ...

29.25 x 39.75 in. (74.3 x 101 cm.) Northern Pacific railroad (American 1872-1970), Yellowstone Park, circa 1924, offset lithograph multicolored advertising poster depicting a landscape view of ...

Thomas Moran (1837-1926) was an American painter whose career quickly advanced when Civil War financier Jay Cooke invited Moran to join an expedition team to the little-known Yellowstone region.

The pair arrived with relevant experience. Moran had recently created illustrations based on another Yellowstone expedition in 1870. Meanwhile, Jackson had started a photography business with his ...

Thomas Moran's collection of paintings, including more than 1,300 at Gilcrease Museum, inspired President Theodore Roosevelt and the U.S. Congress to create the national parks in the 1870s and the ...

And it turns out Mount Moran is named after a painter named Thomas Moran. Some quick background on Moran. Born in 1837 in the United Kingdom, his family moved to the United States when he was seven.