Artist

Peter Moran

born Bolton, England 1841-died Philadelphia, PA 1914
Born
Bolton, England
Died
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Biography

Etcher, painter. The youngest of four Moran brothers, Peter was born in Lancashire, England, and came with his family to America in 1844. He was apprenticed to a lithographer at the age of sixteen but disliked the work and began to study with his brothers Thomas and Edward, who were both established artists in Philadelphia. Peter traveled to New Mexico in 1864—seven years before Thomas's first sketching trip to Yellowstone—and again in the early 1880s. Several more trips west were made in the company of his brothers. Peter was also known for paintings and etchings of animal subjects, drawn from the bucolic surroundings of Philadelphia, where he maintained a studio throughout his career.


References
McCracken, Harold. Portrait of the Old West, pp. 150–51. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1952.

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Catalogue of the Collection, pp. 58–66. Fort Worth, Tex.: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1972.

Trenton, Patricia, and Peter H. Hassrick. The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 282, 292. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.

Charles Eldredge, Julie Schimmel, and William H. Truettner Art in New Mexico, 1900–1945: Paths to Taos and Santa Fe (Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1986)

Works by this artist (98 items)

William T. Wiley, Studio Space, 1975, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of James A. and Marsha Perry Mateyka, 2018.19
Studio Space
Date1975
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
On view
Torturer
Date1989
color etching
Not on view
Eerie Grotto Okini
Date1982
color woodcut
Not on view