Live Auction 3744American Art
Thomas Moran (1837-1926)
Lot 39 Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum

Thomas Moran (1837-1926)

Indian Retreat

Closed21 May 2015

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Thomas Moran (1837-1926)
Indian Retreat
signed with conjoined initials and dated 'TMoran. 1896' (lower right)
oil on canvas
31 x 13 in. (78.7 x 33 cm.)

William and Dorothy Harmsen Collection, Denver, Colorado, 1968.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 2001.

Specialist note

The present work was likely originally part of the composition for Blue Beard's Castle, a 32 x 47 in. (81.3 x 119.4 cm.) oil painting which Moran described in his 1896 journal: "Sunset, two horsemen & water running into a canon with castle and sea in distance."

This work will be included in Stephen L. Good's and Phyllis Braff's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.