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Letter from The Saturday Evening Post’s Editor in Chief George H. Lorimer to Thomas Moran regarding a purchased painting

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Curatorial Remarks

The letter is in reference to Moran's 1892 oil painting of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, currently in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The painting was donated to the museum by Graeme Lorimor, the son of George H. Lorimor. The painting was the source for Gustave H. Buek's chromolithograph The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, 16.221c. See Wilkins, Thurman. Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains. 2nd ed. First published 1966. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998, pgs. 273-274 and Anderson, Nancy K., et al. Thomas Moran. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1997, pg. 276.

Sandra Pauly, Luce Curatorial Scholar of American Art, 2022

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Title(s): 
Letter from The Saturday Evening Post’s Editor in Chief George H. Lorimer to Thomas Moran regarding a purchased painting
Creator(s): 
George Horace Lorimer (Author)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
April 21, 1919
Materials/Techniques: 
ink on paper
Classification: 
Manuscripts
Object Type: 
Letter
Accession No: 
3827.815
Department: 
Archive
Collection: 
William R. Leigh Manuscript Collection
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