Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West
Presenting the first in-depth study of Thomas Moran's early western landscapes, Joni Louise Kinsey describes how the artist created three monumental paintings—The Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone (1872), The Chasm of the Colorado (1873-74), and The Mountain of the Holy Cross (1875)—that, in the aftermath of the Civil War, evoked the nation's spiritual journey and suggestsed its cultural upheaval. The author describes how the paintings reflected a new national identity of both failure and...
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Presenting the first in-depth study of Thomas Moran's early western landscapes, Joni Louise Kinsey describes how the artist created three monumental paintings—The Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone (1872), The Chasm of the Colorado (1873-74), and The Mountain of the Holy Cross (1875)—that, in the aftermath of the Civil War, evoked the nation's spiritual journey and suggestsed its cultural upheaval. The author describes how the paintings reflected a new national identity of both failure and promise, and helped open the West for tourism and travel.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Visual Documentation of the Great Surveys1Pt. 1Aesthetics: Theory and Application1Moran's Aesthetic Theory and Background112Landscape as Metaphor20Pt. 2The Yellowstone3The Hayden Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories434The Northern Pacific Railroad685The Publishing Industry79Pt. 3The Grand Canyon6The John Wesley Powell Expedition957Popularizing the Grand Canyon125Pt. 4The Mountain of the Holy Cross8The Mountain of the Holy Cross1419Moran's Art and the Popularizing of Colorado161Epilogue174Notes177Selected Bibliography214Index232
