Yellowstone rendition gift for refurbished Amon Carter

    Officials at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth recently announced the gift of Thomas Moran’s painting Mists in the Yellowstone to the Amon Carter Museum.

    The gift was made in honor of the Amon Carter’s recent reopening.

    “We are delighted to present it to the Carter on the occasion of their new expansion and renovation,” Dr. Marla Price, director of the Modern, said.

    The painting, created in 1908, is one of a series of paintings of the Yellowstone territory that made Moran an important artist of his time.

    The piece has been a part of the Modern’s collection since 1954, when Amon G. Carter presented it to the museum in honor of the opening of its current building in Fort Worth’s cultural district.

    It has been on extended loan to the Amon Carter since 1972.

    The gift was approved by the Modern’s Board of Trustees, following the recommendation of the Museum’s Executive committee and staff.

    Thomas Moran is well known for his watercolor sketches of the Yellowstone area.

    His first trip was made as an artist for F.V. Hayden’s Government Exploring Expedition to the Yellowstone Valley.

    It was on this trip that Moran acquired the nickname “Yellowstone” and began to incorporate a “Y” into his monogrammed signature.

    During the expedition, Moran wrote, “The impression then made upon me by the stupendous and remarkable manifestations of nature’s forces will remain with me as long as memory lasts.”

    Moran’s last visit to Yellowstone was at the age of 87.

    Moran died in 1926 in Santa Barbara, Calif.