Green River Buttes, Wyoming

Buttes, Green River, Wyoming

Thomas Moran’s depictions of the Green River area number more than one hundred and include oil paintings, etchings, wood engravings, chromolithographs, and sketches.¹ The artist not only portrayed the region frequently but also visited on several occasions, including in 1881 after an exhausting year of travel finding vistas to sketch for three separate commissions. Moran first journeyed to Niagara Falls that year, then traveled to the Virginias and Maryland, with his last trip an excursion through Colorado and New Mexico. Before he headed home to the East Coast, however, he took a detour to Wyoming’s Green River, where he had first sketched the American West a decade earlier.

Green River

Green River

Green River, Erosion

Green River. W.

Green River Landscape