Thomas Moran

Thomas Moran
Thomas Moran by Napoleon Sarony
Born	February 12, 1837 Bolton, Lancashire, England
Died	August 25, 1926 (aged 89) Santa Barbara, California, United States
Nationality	American, born in England, and raised in Pennsylvania, United States
Known for	Landscape painting
Movement	Hudson River School, Rocky Mountain School

Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Thomas Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape, in particular, the American West.^[1]

Moran along with Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, and William Keith are sometimes referred to as belonging to the Rocky Mountain School of landscape painters because of all of the Western landscapes made by this group.^[2]