Now that Americans travel anywhere and everywhere in an unrelenting quest for pleasure, it's easy to forget that the mighty vacation industry is a relatively recent phenomenon. A beguiling show at ...

Thomas Moran was an American artist known for his oil and watercolor paintings of American landscapes. He was associated with the Hudson River School and the Rocky Mountain School. "After a day at ...

Thomas Moran (English/American, 1837-1926) is widely recognized for his images of Wyoming, particularly of Yellowstone and Green River. These regions, however, were only one subject that captivated ...

Frederic Church, Winslow Homer and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape A Civil War veteran who, after being discharged from the Union Army, turned his back on his family’s plans that he ...

A light-drenched view of the Virgin Canyon by Hudson River School painter Thomas Moran is the first thing you see upon walking into the Ackland’s new exhibit, Way Out West, which consists of more than ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (KIFI/KIDK)-Two Thomas Moran landscapes that have been touring the country for 50 years are returning to the Department of Interior Museum in Washington D.C. The masterpieces, “The ...

If you think the American landscape has been despoiled during the past century, blame the artists — those painters who depicted scenic wonders with such alluring style that tourists, and later ...

Thomas Moran was an eyewitness to one of the great American stories -- the nation's transformation from a raw, rural and eastward-leaning frontier culture into a teeming and largely urban society that ...

On a bright morning in late June, Shirl Ireland stands in her backyard painting majestic Mount Sepulchre, which rises from the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park. This kind of outdoor painting ...

Situated in conversation with Patrick Kikut’s installation of Colorado River paintings, Thomas Moran’s prints, drawings, and watercolors provide art historical context for contemporary expedition art.