Annotated Bibliography

Selected Works

Thomas Moran and Yellowstone National Park
Selected Bibliography

Anderson, Nancy K. Thomas Moran. Washington, DC and New Haven: National Gallery of Art and Yale University

  • Press, 1997.
  • Catalog of an exhibition of Moran’s art with extensive documentation on the artist’s life and career. Many color illustrations.

Bedell, Rebecca. The Anatomy of Nature: Geology & American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875. Princeton and      

  • Oxford:  Princeton University Press, 2001.

Boehme, Sarah E. “Yellowstone Paintings: Artistic Discoveries, Hard Rides, and Golden Vistas,” in Greater 

  • Yellowstone Public Lands: A Century of Discovery, Hard Lessons, and Bright Prospects, edited by Alice Wondrak Biel, 34-45. Yellowstone National Park, WY: Yellowstone Center for Resources, 2006.

Clark, Carol. Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West. Austin: University of Texas Press for the Amon

  • Carter Museum, 1980.

Haines, Aubrey L. The Yellowstone Story: A History of Our First National Park.  Revised edition. Yellowstone National

  • Park, WY: Yellowstone Association for Natural Science, History & Education, Inc; Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1996.
  • This two-volume publication traces the history of the Yellowstone region, including prehistoric times, its establishment as a national park, military administration, and more recent developments of the park under the National Park Service.

Hassrick, Peter. Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park.  Seattle: University of Washington

  • Press, 2002.
  • Important recent publication. Explores generations of artists who captured the wonders of Yellowstone.

Hayden, Ferdinand V. The Yellowstone National Park and the Mountain Regions of Portions of Idaho, Nevada,

  • Colorado and Utah.  Tulsa, OK: Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association, 1997.
  • Reprint of the volume originally published in 1876 by L. Prang & Company. Illustrated with 15 chromolithographs based upon watercolors by Thomas Moran. Moran was an un-official member of the 1871 Hayden survey expedition.

Kinsey, Joni. Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West.  Washington and London: Smithsonian

  • Institution Press, 1992.
  • Important analysis of Moran’s work at Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and the Mount of the Holy Cross.

___. Thomas Moran’s West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste. Lawrence: Published for Joslyn

  • Art Museum by the University Press of Kansas, 2006.
  • Excellent account of the history of Moran’s portfolio of chromolithographs of Yellowstone and other western scenes.

A Portfolio of Watercolor Sketches by Thomas Moran: Selected from the Collections of Yellowstone and 

  • Grand Teton National Parks.  Introduction by Peter Hassrick. Yellowstone National Park, WY: Yellowstone and Grand Teton Associations, 1999.
  • Eight reproductions of Moran’s watercolor sketches of these two National Parks.

Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed. Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871

  • Hayden Expedition.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Morand, Anne. The Poetry of Place: Works on Paper by Thomas Moran from the Gilcrease Museum. New York:

  • American Federation of Arts, 2001.

___. Thomas Moran: The Field Sketches, 1856-1923. Norman and London:  University of Oklahoma Press

  • for the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, 1996.

Morand, Anne and Nancy Friese. The Prints of Thomas Moran in the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History

  • and Art.  Tulsa, OK: Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association, 1986. Includes information on printmaking processes.

Watercolor Sketches of Thomas Moran: Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Introduction by

  • Peter Hassrick.[Moose, WY]: Yellowstone and Grand Teton Associations, 1991. Portfolio of reproductions of Moran’s sketches of Yellowstone and Tetons.

Whitney Gallery and Education Department, Buffalo Bill Historical Center.  Influences of Art in Yellowstone, [web site]


Whittlesey, Lee H. “A Brief Look at Moran Point and Artist Point” Yellowstone Science 14 (2006): 7-12.

  • A discussion of the origin of the name of Artist and Moran Points.

Wilkins, Thurman with Caroline Lawson Hinkley. Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains. 2nd edition, revised

  • & enlarged. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. The most complete biography of Moran.

Selected titles may be available for purchase in the Museum Store. For Museum Store information call 409-886-2787 ext. 13.

You can also consult your local library. Books not in the holdings of your local library can often be borrowed through inter-library loan.

Adapted from Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Buffalo Bill Historical Center
by Stark Museum of Art, Research Library
712 Green Avenue, Orange, TX 77630. January 2008.

 
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