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VERSO
Label, Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Label, Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Rock of Acoma, New Mexico will be included in Stephen Good and Phyllis Braff’s forthcoming Thomas Moran Catalogue Raisonné.

Moran historian Carol Clark wrote, “Moran’s Western canvases and watercolors depicted areas of great significance to the American public; they conferred historical legitimacy to a land lacking human associations and presented a stage for the unfolding drama of a nation’s future. Moran’s American landscape could also rise in status by association with historical themes. As America viewed her land, especially the West, as part of a natural historical past destined to determine a great future, Americans began to accept landscape painting in oil and watercolor as an integral and formative element of this destiny.”

PROVENANCE
The artist
Albert Gallatin, 1906
Private collection, Michigan, by descent
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, 2007
Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Private collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico

EXHIBITED
Annual Exhibition, American Watercolor Society, New York, New York, 1902
Watercolor Exhibition, Philadelphia Art Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1904
Memorial Exhibition: Paintings and Etchings by Thomas Moran, Clinton Academy, East Hampton, New York, 1928

LITERATURE
Carol Clark, Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West, University of Texas Press, 1980, p. 155, illustrated

Condition ReportAs viewed through glass. Paper appears to be in good condition. Colors are bright.

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