# Near Meadow Creek, Utah, in Hudson River School

Thomas Moran painted this (July 25, 1871), aged 34. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

From the museum's label:

> Recto: Horizontal view of the valley floor with Meadow Creek, rushing through in cnetral foreground surrounded by hills and mountains in middle ground and distance.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: July 25, 1871
- Medium: Recto: Graphite, brush and black wash and white gouache on gray-green wove paper. Verso: Graphite on gray-green wove paper.
- Dimensions: 12.8 x 20 cm (5 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1917-17-8
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Thomas Moran](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-moran), American, born England, 1837–1926

Moran came to Philadelphia from England as a child, trained as a wood engraver and largely taught himself to paint, deeply influenced by Turner’s work, which he studied in London.

5 works in the collection.

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