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THOMAS MORAN (1837-1926)

Lot 318
19.01.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 883560
Lot 318 | THOMAS MORAN (1837-1926)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
THOMAS MORAN (1837-1926)

A Cloudy Day on Long Island

signed with initials in monogram 'TMoran.' and dated twice '1891' (lower left)

oil on canvas

30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm.)

Painted in 1891.





Provenance

The artist.

Charles B. Lawson, acquired from the above, 1892.

Estate of the above, 1912.

Sale: American Art Association, New York, 19-20 February 1912, lot 138, sold by the above.

Jacob Wertheim, by 1936.

Estate of the above, 1936.

Sale: American Art Association, New York, 10 January 1936, lot 62, sold by the above.

Julius H. Weitzner, Inc., New York.

Frank V. Gill, New York.

Estate of the above.

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 27 October 1977, lot 34, sold by the above.

Spanierman Gallery, New York, by 1978.

Private collection, Florida, acquired from the above.

Adelson Galleries, New York.

Acquired from the present owner from the above, 2009.



Literature

F.N. Levy, American Art Annual, vol. 10, Washington, D.C., 1913, p. 54.

American Art Annual, vol. 33, Washington, D.C., 1936, p. 534.

"Coming Auctions, American-Anderson Galleries: Wertheim et. al. Paintings," Artnews, January 4, 1936, p. 16, illustrated.

"Portraits Will Go on Sale This Week," The New York Times, January 5, 1936, p. N12.

"Art is Sold for $39,000," The New York Times, January 11, 1936, p. 13.

E.B. Labrot, "Thomas Moran: The East Hampton Paintings," University of Denver, Master's Research Paper, 1968, pl. 15, illustrated.



Exhibited

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Fall 1891.

New York, Union League Club, Paintings by American Artists, January 14-16, 1892.

New York, National Academy of Design, Sixty-seventh Annual Exhibition, April 1892.

Massachusetts, Boston Art Club, n.d.

East Hampton, New York, Guild Hall, Thomas Moran: A Search for the Scenic—His Landscape Paintings of the American West, East Hampton, and Venice, November 29, 1980-January 25, 1981, pp. 28–29, no. 47.



Post lot text

This work will be included in Phyllis Braff’s, Stephen Good’s and Melissa Webster Speidel’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work.
Artist:Thomas Moran (1837 - 1926)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
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