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Venice: The Lagoon Looking toward Santa Maria della Salute,
1894
After achieving fame for his sweeping vistas of the American West and Southwest, Moran began traveling to Venice in the late 1880s, painting composite views on canvas and paper of the alluring city and its lagoon, which found a steady and appreciative audience. As demonstrated in this characteristically luminous example, Moran avoids topographical specificity by condensing the setting so that the various monuments—notably the tower in Piazza San Marco and the white-domed church of Santa Maria della Salute—are all visible within the same dreamy composition, evoking Venice’s evanescent beauty as if seen from the low perspective of a floating gondola.
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1894
Europe, Italy, Venice, Doge's Palace
George Willis Pack, Cleveland, Ohio; his granddaughter, Gladys T. White, Princeton, New Jersey;
Handwritten note: See files for letter from donor, Feb 25, 1975. Names of her grandfather was George Willis Pock. He purchased watercolor ca. 1888-1890. He was associated with Pack, Woods, and Co., Cleveland, Ohio, a lumber business. He was father of Beulah Pack Rollins, wife of Western Americana buff.;
- "Acquisitions 1969", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 29, no. 1 (1970): p. 16-27., p. 23
- Joseph R. Goldyne, J. M. W. Turner: works on paper from American collections: [exhibition]: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 30 September-November 23, 1975, (Berkeley, CA: University Art Museum, 1975)., p. 210-211; no. 76 (illus.)
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., p. 132
- Phyllis Braff, Thomas Moran, a search for the scenic: his landscape paintings of the American West, East Hampton, and Venice: an exhibition inaugurating Guild Hall's 50th anniversary year, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, N.Y., November 29th 1980-January 25th 1981, (East Hampton, NY: Guild Hall Museum, 1980). , no. 84; p. 43 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 335, checklist no. 763 (illus.)
