1881
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Gardiner's Bay, Long Island, seen from Fresh Pond is a 1881 by Mary Nimmo Moran, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a quiet bay under a cloudy sky. Water stretches left. Low hills and a single house sit right. No people, just land and light. This was made with an etching needle, not a brush. Moran loved weather—here the clouds look ready to break open. She and her husband Thomas often painted side by side near their home in East Hampton. Look up Mary Nimmo Moran (American, 1842–1899).
With her husband, Thomas Moran (also in this gallery), Mary Nimmo Moran participated in the American revival of etching by creating fresh, lyrical landscapes such as this view near her home in East Hampton, Long Island. Moran traveled extensively in Europe and was particularly influenced by the Barbizon school (see Corot and Daubigny, elsewhere in the exhibition). Like these French landscape artists, she paid special attention to weather conditions and atmospheric effects, particularly evident inthis turbulent sky. Throughout her career, Moran etched out of doors directly from nature.
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Mary Nimmo Moran (May 16, 1842 – September 25, 1899) was an American landscape printmaker, specializing in etchings.
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