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NO.5, BRIGHT ANGEL TRAIL, 1904
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"My chief desire is to call the attention of American landscape painters to the unlimited field for the exercise of their talents to be found
in this enchanting Southwestern country; a country flooded with color and picturesqueness, offering everything to inspire the artist, and
stimulate him to the production of works of lasting interest and value. This Grand Canyon of Arizona, and all the country surrounding
it, offers a new and comparatively untrodden field for pictorial interpretation, and only awaits the men of original thoughts and ideas to
prove to their countrymen that we possess a land of beauty and grandeur with which no other can compare."
Thomas Moran, quoted in Nina Spalding Stevens, "A Pilgrimage to the Artist's Paradise," The Fine Arts Journal (February 1911), 112.
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NO.6, CANYON MISTS: ZOROASTER PEAK, GRAND CANYON, 1914
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"Not the most fervid pictures of a poet's fancy could transcend the glories then revealed in the depths of the Canon; inky shadows, pale
gildings of lofty spires, golden splendors of sun beating full on facades of red and yellow, obscurations of distant peaks by veils of tran-
sient shower, glimpses of white towers half drowned in purple haze, suffusions of rosy light blended in reflection from a hundred tinted
walls. Caught up to emotional heights the beholder becomes unmindful of fatigue. He mounts on wings. He drives the chariot of the sun."
C. A. Higgins, A Grand Calion of the Colorado River (Chicago: Passenger Department Santa Fe Route, 1897): 18.
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Harvey, Eleanor Jones. Thomas Moran and the Spirit of Place, pamphlet, 2001; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth307670/m1/19/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Museum of Art.