Thomas Moran, William Henry Jackson and Yellowstone National Park

Selected Bibliography

Anderson, Nancy K. Thomas Moran. Washington, D.C. and New Haven: National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 1997.
Catalogue of an exhibition of Moran's art with extensive documentation on the artist's life and career. Many color illustrations.

Barber, John F. Old Yellowstone Views. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1987.

Bedell, Rebecca. The Anatomy of Nature: Geology & American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Clark, Carol. Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West. Austin: University of Texas Press for the Amon Carter Museum. 1980.

Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden and the Founding of the Yellowstone National Park. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973.

Goetzmann, William H. Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West. Austin: The Texas State Historical Association in cooperation with the Center for Studies in Texas History at the University of Texas at Austin, 1993.
Overview of the opening of the West, including the nature of exploration and its consequences for civilization.

Haines, Aubrey L. The Yellowstone Story: A History of Our First National Park. Revised edition. Yellowstone National Park, Wyo.: Yellowstone Association for Natural Science, History & Education, Inc; Niwot, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, 1996.
A two-volume publication that traces the history of the Yellowstone region.

Hales, Peter B. William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.

Hassrick, Peter H. Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.
Important new publication. Explores generations of artists who captured the wonders of Yellowstone.

Jackson, William Henry. Hayden and His Men: Being a Selection of 108 Photographs by William Henry Jackson of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories for the years 1870-1878. Compiled by Frank Chambers. [Unites States]: Francis Paul Geoscience Literature, 1988.

Jackson, William Henry. Time Exposure: The Autobiography of William Henry Jackson. New York: G.P. Putnan's Sons, 1940; reprint, Tucson: The Patrice Press, 1994.
Jackson ’s life story and experiences in his own words.

Kinsey, Joni Louise. Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West. Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
Important analysis of Moran’s work at Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and the Mount of the Holy Cross.

Lawlor, Laurie. Window on the West: The Frontier Photography of William Henry Jackson. New York: Holiday House, 1999.
Discusses Jackson’s life and career. Photographs by Jackson from 1869 to 1893.

Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed. Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Moran, Anne. The Poetry of Place: Works of Paper by Thomas Moran from the Gilcrease Museum. New York: American Federation of Arts, 2001.

Morand, Anne and Nancy Friese. The Prints of Thomas Moran in the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art. Tulsa: Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association, 1986.
Includes information on printmaking processes.

Sandweiss, Martha A., ed. Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1991.

Truettner, William H. National Parks and the American Landscape. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1972.

Watercolor Sketches of Thomas Moran: Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Introduction by Peter H. Hassrick. [Moose, Wyoming]: Yellowstone and Grand Teton Association, 1991.
Portfolio of reproduction of Moran’s sketches of Yellowstone and Tetons.

Wilkins, Thurman with Caroline Lawson Hinkley: Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains. 2nd edition, revised & enlarged. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
The most complete biography of Moran.

Prepared by the Whitney Gallery of Western Art. 30 May 2002