By Donna Gustafson with an introduction by Anne Morand
Published in 2001 by the AFA
72 pages, 87 illus. (82 in color), 8 ½ × 6 ½ in.
Paper • ISBN 1-885444-17-6 • $18.00 (AFA)

Thomas Moran (1837–1926) is widely acclaimed as one of America’s foremost landscape painters. The Poetry of Place: Works on Paper by Thomas Moran brings together eighty-two drawings, prints, and watercolors from his travels throughout the American West and other scenic regions. In contrast to the illustrative commissioned work for commercial and governmental agencies and private patrons that occupied him for much of his life, the works Moran produced in the field were for his own use and pleasure. More than preparatory drawings, these sketches reveal the ebb and flow of his artistic development, the depth of his inspiration before nature, his interest in artists and techniques, and his artistic ambitions.