Rare Thomas Moran watercolor to be unveiled at the Amon Carter Museum
Thomas Moran (18371926), Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, ca. 1879, watercolor and graphite on paper, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 2020.1
FORT WORTH, TX
.- This summer, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art will unveil the acquisition of a rare watercolor, Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah (ca. 1879) by Thomas Moran in an exhibition that will explore the origin of the worka little-known story of the artists westward journey along the transcontinental railroadwithin the context of both the history and the art of the period, as well as the artists renowned career. The new acquisition will be exhibited alongside a variety of Morans work including an oil painting and prints from the museums collection as well as contemporaneous photographs, watercolors, and ephemera, illuminating the life and cultural back
Amon Carter Museum to unveil rare Thomas Moran watercolor this summer
Feb 24, 2021 |
In the summer of 2021, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art is set to unveil the watercolor
Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah (ca. 1879) by Thomas Moran in an exhibition that will explore the origin of the work a little-known story of the artist’s westward journey along the transcontinental railroad within the context of both the history and the art of the period, as well as Moran’s renowned career.
The newly acquired watercolor will be exhibited alongside a variety of Moran’s work, including an oil painting and prints from the museum’s collection as well as contemporaneous photographs, watercolors and ephemera “illuminating the life and cultural backdrop of one of America’s most important landscape painters,” according to a press release from the museum.
Photo studios were busy places in Leavenworth, Kansas, in the late 1870s. Thousands of everyday people flocked to have their pictures taken.
Today, some of those pictures have re-emerged and they tell a story of an African-American community that took root in the town as Black families migrated to escape the Jim Crow south.
An exhibit currently on display at the Black Archives Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri, features a series of black-and-white portraits that have survived more than a century.
An older man and woman are decked out in their Sunday best. A quartet of soldiers poses in front of a woodsy backdrop. A young woman in a black hat looks boldly into the camera lens. All of the subjects are African-American.
Listen • 4:31 1 of 10 Photographer E.E. Henry s portrait of Samuel Green,1880 and an unknown photographer s portrait of Geraldine Jones; 1870s-1900s. Glass plate negatives photographed in Leavenworth, Kansas, from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. 2 of 10 Unknown photographer s portrait of James Turner circa 1895 and photographer Harrison Putney s portrait of Private Paul Schrader of Ottawa, Kansas, and three Soldiers from the 23rd Volunteer Infantry circa 1895-1899. Glass plate negatives photographed in Leavenworth, Kansas, from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. 3 of 10 Harrison Putney s portrait of circus performer The Great Layton with his props. Gelatin dry plate negative photographed in Leavenworth, Kansas, from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
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