Thomas Moran's West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste

by Joni L. Kinsey and Thomas Moran

Watercolor images of Yellowstone Park painted in the early 1870s by artist Thomas Moran shifted America's gaze westward. Published as a portfolio of chromolithographs by Boston lithographer Louis Prang, these brilliant reproductions--with a companion text on Yellowstone geology by explorer Ferdinand Hayden--were the first color images of our first national park widely available to the general public. As such, they helped shape America's growing fascination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700614133
• ISBN13: 9780700614134
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.9" x 10.5"