Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Thomas Moran’s Early Landscape of Juniata Valley, Pa, is Acquired by National Gallery of Art

October 14, 2010 by  
Filed under Featured, Museums & Galleries

WASHINGTON, DC.- The Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, voted last week to acquire The Juniata, Evening, an exceptional painting done in 1864 by American artist Thomas Moran (1837-1926). Purchased from a private collection with funds from Max and Heidi Berry and Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation, the Pennsylvania landscape has never been exhibited publicly. It is the second painting by Moran to enter the Gallery’s collection; the first is The Much Resounding [...]