The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
1893–1901 · Oil on canvas · Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Thomas Moran (1837–1926)
- Year
- 1893–1901
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 245.1 × 417.5 cm
- Collection
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
- Movement
- Hudson River School
The Yellowstone River plunges over its falls and runs through a canyon of yellow and rose-coloured rock, pines clinging to the ledges beneath a vast sky. Moran first saw the scene in 1871 as the artist attached to the Hayden geological survey of Yellowstone; the expedition's findings and his images of the region helped persuade Congress to create the first national park in 1872, the year he painted his first big canvas of the canyon. He returned to the subject throughout his life, and this version, more than four metres wide, was worked on from 1893 to 1901. It gathers the vantage points he had sketched over several days into a single idealised view, and it fixed the image of the West's natural wonders in the American imagination. It is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Yellow and rose-coloured rock, a plunging river and a vast sky, a wide Yellowstone picture for a living room, study or hallway at 24×16 in black or natural oak. A cream, ochre or sage wall; it suits a mountain home and a national-park collection.
- Style
- Hudson River School painting
- Era
- 19th century (1893–1901)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Palette
- butter yellow
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 18×12, 24×16 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; oak lightens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
