P3D Re: Moran Exhibit

[Brenda Nowlan <bknowlan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Today, I went to see the Thomas Moran exhibit at the East Wing of the
National Gallery of Art.  As you may already know, Thomas Moran was an
incredible American landscape painter and this show was his paintings of
the American West.  Excellent show, I plan to go back again.  In one of
the rooms of this particular exhibit were 6 stereographs.  Each one was
placed in its own viewer-I believe modern oak viewers made to look like
the antique design, with the plastic lenses inside.  Each had its own
chair spaced appoximately 10' apart, upon which one could sit and
comfortably view.  3 on one side of the room, 3 on the other.  Imagine,
one whole room dedicated to only 6 stereographs.  Mind you, this was
quite a large show.  I suspect the exhibit designer had much respect for
the stereographs.

The stereographs included:

William Henry Jackson
Hot Springs on Gardiners River
Upper Basin
with Thomas Moran    1871

John K. Hillers
The Chasm of the Colorado
with Thomas Moran    1873

Charles Bierstadt
Statue of George Washington
U.S. Capital, Washington, D.C.
with Morans "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone" in the background

William Henry Jackson
Successful Fisherman
(Thomas Moran in Yellowstone,  1871)

Thomas Moran
Celebrated Artist
Sketching near Yavapai Point, Grand Canon, National Park    1903

Making Pictures
John Hillers with his Photographic equipment on Aquarius Plateau,
Utah    1875

There was a gentlman next to me, viewing (I believe for the first time
ever) the stereographs.  I could here him say to himself, WOW!. . . 
WOW!. . .  as he viewed each one.  I was in total agreement.

Brenda


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