Green River Cliffs, Wyoming
1881 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
About this artwork
This monumental oil painting depicts a dramatic sunset over the Green River in Wyoming, featuring a group of Native American travelers in the foreground. It exemplifies the artist's role in the Hudson River School's later influence on American Western landscape painting.
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Thomas Moran was instrumental in shaping the American public's perception of the West, with his breathtaking paintings often being used by the U.S. government to advocate for the establishment of national parks. He famously visited the Green River area repeatedly, finding the unique geological formations and atmospheric conditions to be an endlessly inspiring subject for his dramatic, highly romanticized compositions.
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Green River Cliffs, Wyoming
Thomas Moran, 1881
