Letter from The Saturday Evening Post’s Editor in Chief George H. Lorimer to Thomas Moran regarding a purchased painting, April 21, 1919

Item — Folder: 110

Identifier: 3827.815

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Description

Folder 110

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

Dates

April 21, 1919

Creator

Lorimer, George Horace, October 6, 1867 - October 22, 1937, American (Author, Person)

Language of Materials

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Materials in English

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