PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, LAGUNA BEACH, CALIFORNIA






Thomas Moran (1837-1926)


A View of Doge's Palace signed with conjoined initials and dated 'TMoran. 1916.' and bears artist's thumbprint (lower right)oil on canvas14 1/4 x 20 1/8inPainted in 1916.
|ProvenanceMs. Annie Rae Poth.St. Stephen's Episcopal School, Austin, Texas, gift of the above.Sale, Christie's, New York, December 5, 2002, lot 63.Acquired by the present owner from the above.ExhibitedSan Antonio, Texas, San Antonio Museum of Art, The Age of Innocence: American Impressionism & Its Influence, June 29-September 1, 1996.This painting will be included in Stephen L. Good and Phyllis Braff's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.Thomas Moran traveled to Venice in 1886 and 1890, and based on his sketches from these trips, he executed numerous studio paintings. He purchased a gondola in Venice and shipped it back to his studio in the United States to stage compositions and capture the detail evident in these works. The artist returned to the subject of Venetian canals throughout the remainder of his career due to their popularity among collectors. Moran showed a Venetian work in nearly all the exhibitions in which he was included at the National Academy. The atmospheric effects depicted in works such as A View of Doge's Palace suggest an influence of Joseph Mallard William Turner's (1775-1851) Venetian work, which Moran had seen in England in the early 1860s. The vibrancy of the palette and charming details seen in A View of Doge's Palace are hallmark traits of Moran's Venetian work.