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Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
Object Details
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Date
1879
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Medium
Watercolor and graphite on paper
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Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 17 3/4 in.
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Inscriptions
Original backing card, verso:
u.c. in graphite: {On the Yellow Stone River} by an american [sic] artist - I believe. A Severin
r.c. in graphite: 51626 [circled] / 9+B 23 3/4 x 17 3/4 / Rough whal[illegible] Mt. / 6929a / new tint - cosc / mt + wash / Resize + [illegible] / touch in spot / in sky
Original backing board, verso:
u.c. in graphite: On the yellow Stone River / by an American Artist
c. on label: Frame No. 51626 [graphite] Date 18-1-98 [graphite] / From HARRIS & SONS / Established 17_0[lost] / Picture Frame Makers, Gilders / and Mount Cutters / PICTURE DEALERS | PICTURE RESTORERS / House Painters . D[lost]ators / ARTISTS' COLOURMEN [lost] STATIONERS / The Devon and Cornwall Galleries / 70 George Street / PLYMOUTH
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Credit Line
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchase in loving memory of our dear friend and colleague William Patrick (Pat) Harris
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Accession Number
2020.1
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Copyright
Public domain
Object Description
In the summer of 1879, Moran visited the town of Alta in the Wasatch Mountains east of Salt Lake City, a region that is part of the ancestral homelands of the Paiute, Ute, and other Great Basin peoples. Inspired by the scenery, Moran created a number of remarkable drawings and watercolors in which he rendered granite topography with fluid washes and suggestive linework. In works such as this one, Moran portrayed the area as uninhabited wilderness, even though Alta was at the time a bustling mining community.
At some point in the 1880s, this watercolor was acquired by the Englishman John Ruskin, perhaps the most influential art critic of the 19th century. Moran and his wife, Mary Nimmo Moran, were two of the only Americans represented in Ruskin’s collection, and Mount Superior provides an important record of the critic’s collecting interests.
—Text taken from the Carter Handbook (2023).
Additional details
Location: Off view
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