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Thomas Moran was an American Painter and a print-maker of the Hudson River School in New York. Moran was younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio. He was hired an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. late in 1860s, he was appointed as the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him to excel his career as one of the top notch painters of the American Landscape.
Thomas Moran who is best known for his panoramic views of the American West, he also applied the same romantic sensibility to his series of Venetian landscape produced for the American commercial market. In this particular painting of the Grand Canal, likely inspired from a British landscape J.M.W Turner, Moran included well known touristic highlights in his painting like the Doge's Palace, and a local Flavor in the form of the foreground merchants. Yet the painting is blazing Crimson, Orange, and yellow-gold sky, and the rainbow hued canal that cover most of the canvas's surface area.
Title: Grand Canal, Venice
Creator: Thomas Moran
Date Created: 1898
Location Created: Venice, Italy
Physical Dimension: 35.9 x 51.4 cm
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Courtesy: Oklahoma City Museum of Art
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