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Summit of the Sierras
Thomas Moran · 1872/75
Provenance
Ownership history
- Given by Mrs. Byron Harvey to the Art Institute, 1965.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
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.
Literature
Published references
- "Thomas Moran: Painter and Patriot," Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Herald 12:2 (1983), p. 60 (ill.).
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