Moran, Thomas: [Prang, Louis]:

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[THE CLIFFS OF GREEN RIVER]. A striking chromolithograph of the Cliffs of Green River, Wyoming Territory, made to exactly replicate an oil painting by Thomas Moran and constituting the earliest example of chromolithography produced after Moran's work. This is among the earliest western publications of Moran, preceding his work for Hayden's famed Yellowstone Park portfolio by two years, and was produced by the same chromolithographer, Louis Prang - the greatest color printer of his day.This chromolithograph was originally issued as one of a pair, along with another titled, The White Mountains - New Hampshire. The origin of these prints has been little known, but they were produced as a free gift for subscribers to an art periodical called The Aldine, published by James Sutton & Company of New York. The journal touted the gift thusly:"Every subscriber to The Aldine for the year 1874 will receive a pair of chromos. The original pictures were painted in oil for the publishers of The Aldine by Thomas Moran....The subjects were chosen to represent 'The East' and 'The West.' One is a view in the White Mountains, New Hampshire; the other gives the Cliffs of Green River, Wyoming Territory. The difference in the nature of the scenes themselves is a pleasing contrast, and affords a good display of the artist's scope and coloring. The chromos are each worked from thirty distinct plates, and are in size and appearance exact facsimiles of the originals."In the same notice to Aldine subscri

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