August 22, 1928. 
THOMAS MOHAN'S MASTERPIECE ACQUIRED BY THE 
RATI ORAL GALLHRY OF ART, WASHINGTON . 
The Thomas Moran painting of the Grand Canyon of the 
Yellowstone which has been on exhibition in the national Gallery 
for a number of years as a loan, first by the artist and later 
by his daughter, Miss Ruth B. Moran, has been added to the 
Gallery 1 s permanent collections. In May of the present year 
during a visit of Mr. George D. Pratt of Hew York City to the 
Gallery he became deeply impressed with the importance of this 
great work artistically and nationally, and soon after announced 
his willingness to contribute ten thousand dollars to its purchase. 
Miss Moran was so greatly pleased with the prospect of having the 
picture become the property of the Ration, thus retaining its 
place in the Rational Gallery, that she decided to accept this 
■ amount* 
Moran, who died in his ninetieth year, August 25, 1926, 
was exceedingly skillful with the pencil, the graver and the 
brush and was a colorist unsurpassed. After three visits to 
the Yellowstone he found the Grand Canyon most worthy of his crown- 
ing effort, and prepared the way for its pictorial realization by 
a multitude of studies in pencil and water color. The canvas 
finally chosen was so large (8 x 14 ft) that it could not be accom- 
modaoed in his maso xiampton studio and a nearby carpenter shop was 
utilized for the purpose. 
