PROPERTY FROM THE BARKER FAMILY TRUST, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA






Thomas Moran (1837-1926)


Beach Scene in Fort George Island, Florida signed with conjoined initials 'T Moran' (lower left)oil on panel9 x 12inPainted circa 1878.
|ProvenanceMaxwell Galleries, San Francisco, California. (probably) Acquired by the present owner from the above.ExhibitedSan Francisco, California, Maxwell Galleries, American Art Since 1850, August 2-31, 1968, p. 81, no. 235.This painting will be included in Stephen L. Good and Phyllis Braff's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.Thomas Moran executed approximately eight works depicting the Fort George Island shoreline in Florida at the end of the nineteenth century. Two notable works which illustrate the same scene, both dated 1878, are in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.