The+Chasm+of+the+Colorado

1873-1874 **Thomas Moran** Born: Bolton, England 1837 Died: Santa Barbara, California 1926
 * [[image:L.1968.84.2_1c.jpg link="http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=17814"]] || ==The Chasm of the Colorado==

oil on canvas mounted on aluminum 84 3/8 x 144 3/4 in. (214.3 x 367.6 cm.) Remarks: Frame: 111 1/4 x 171 in. Lent by the Department of the Interior Museum L.1968.84.2 Smithsonian American Art Museum 2nd Floor, 2nd Floor N Lobby ||


 * Thomas Moran** (February 12, 1837 - August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the [|Hudson River School] whose work often featured the [|Rocky Mountains]. Thomas 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.