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Fort George Island, Florida

1878

Thomas Moran

(American, 1837–1926)

America, 19th century

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 64.8 x 54.7 cm (25 1/2 x 21 9/16 in.)

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1915.689

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Inscription

signed lower right: TMORAN / TMORAN. 1878 [TM in monogram].

Provenance

Miss Rose Durfee, 1878; Hinman B. Hurlbut, Cleveland.

Citations

Strahan, Edward, ed. The Art Treasures of America: Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America. vol. 8. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1879. Mentioned: p. 74

Wilkins, Thurman. Thomas Moran, Artist of the Mountains. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Mentioned: pp. 108-119, 189-190; Reproduced: following p. 96

Cleveland Museum of Art. "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). pp. 1-36. Reproduced: p. 31, cat. 136

Carr, Archie. "Eden Changes." In Born of the Sun: The Official Florida Bicentennial Commemorative Book. Blank, Joan, and Beth R. Read, eds. Hollywood, FL: Florida Bicentennial Commemorative Journal, 1975. Reproduced: p. 95

Bienenstock, Jennifer A. Martin. "The Formation and Early Years of the Society of American Artists, 1877-1884." Ph.D. dissertation, The City University of New York, 1983. Mentioned: pp. 10, 33-72

Burke, Doreen Bolger, and Catherine Hoover Voorsanger. "The Hudson River School in Eclipse." In American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. Mentioned: p. 89; Reproduced: p. 89, fig. 4.24

Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: p. 161

Wilkins, Thurman, and Caroline Lawson Hinkley. Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. Mentioned: pp. 151-173

Exhibition history

New York, Kurtz Gallery, First Exhibition of The Society of American Artists (6 March-5 April 1878), cat. no. 12.

Cleveland, High School Building, Euclid Avenue, Loan Exhibition (1878); Room number 6, cat. no. 44, p. 87.

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Inaugural Exhibition (6 June-20 September 1916), cat. no. 32, listed p. 129.

Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin's 125th Anniversary Exhibition (15-30 October 1958)

Mansfield, OH, The Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape (8 March-5 April 1981), cat. no. 22 as Fort George Island, Coast of Florida.

Gainesville, FL, University Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida, Florida Visionaries: 1870-1930 (19 February-26 March 1989), cat. not numbered; illus. p. 50.

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

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