Green River Cliffs, Wyoming  1881

Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 157.5 cm (25 x 62 in.) [br] Overview: In June 1871, Thomas Moran, a gifted young artist working in Philadelphia, boarded a train that would take him to the far reaches of the western frontier and change the course of his career. Just a few months earlier he had been asked to illustrate a magazine article describing a wondrous region in Wyoming calle...