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  • Protecting Nature

    Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1872 by Thomas Moran, Yellowstone National Park Museum.

    Moran was another artist working in the same vein as Bierstadt. His paintings of the American West were even more idealized. His work was presented to Congress as evidence that Yellowstone needed to be protected as a National Park which caused them to establish the National Park Service in 1916.

  • Manifest Destiny

    Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon , 1909, Seattle Art Museum
    Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon , 1909, Seattle Art Museum

    I went last year to see the Grand Canyon in person and it does live up to the hype. There were a lot of people in the park and lines of cars to enter but once you got down to the edge of it and looked out without being able to see where it ends, nature suddenly got very large and civilization sudden got very small. Manifest Destiny