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Summit of the Sierras
by Thomas Moran
Provenance
Given by Mrs. Byron Harvey to the Art Institute, 1965.
Exhibition history
Chicago, Arts Club, "American Landscape," November 15-December 30, 1973, cat. 21. Fort Worth,Tex., The Amon Carter Museum, "Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West," May 23-July 13, 1980, p. 2, cat. 98 (ill.); traveled to The Cleveland Museum of Art, August 5-October 5, 1980, and the Yale University Art Gallery, Cambridge, Mass., October 23, 1980-January 4, 1981. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Thomas Moran," September 28, 1997-January 11, 1998, pp. 105 and 345, cat. 52 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier (1890–1940)," June 28-September 27, 2003, pp. 58-59, cat. 61, fig. 21.
Publications
"Thomas Moran: Painter and Patriot," Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Herald 12:2 (1983), p. 60 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Thomas Moran / American, born England, 1837-1926
- Date
- 1872/75
- Medium
- Gouache over graphite, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 36 × 25 cm (14 3/16 × 9 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- gouache
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Byron Harvey
- Accession no.
- 1965.852
More by Thomas Moran in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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