id: 117915 accession number: 1938.67 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.67 updated: 2025-05-08 11:21:59.649000 The Ruby Range, Nevada, 1879. Thomas Moran (American, 1837–1926). Watercolor, gouache and graphite; sheet: 19.6 x 36.2 cm (7 11/16 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection 1938.67 title: The Ruby Range, Nevada title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1879 creation date earliest: 1879 creation date latest: 1879 current location: creditline: Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection copyright: --- culture: America technique: watercolor, gouache and graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - American 19th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Thomas Moran (American, 1837–1926) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 19.6 x 36.2 cm (7 11/16 x 14 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: gray wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower left, in graphite: The Ruby Range / Nevada Aug 8th --79. TMoran. / TM ; by artist, lower right, in graphite [partially erased]: The Ruby Range Nevada / Aug 8th TM translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Watercolors and Drawings form the Museum Collection opening date: 1939-02-07T05:00:00 Watercolors and Drawings form the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-28, 1939). title: The Most Remarkable Scenery: Thomas Moran's Watercolors of the American West opening date: 1980-05-23T04:00:00 The Most Remarkable Scenery: Thomas Moran's Watercolors of the American West. Amon Carter Museum (organizer) (May 23-July 13, 1980); The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 5-October 5, 1980); Yale University Art Gallery (October 23, 1980-January 4, 1981). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: America Draws opening date: 1984-12-28T05:00:00 America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985). title: Visions of the American West opening date: 1986-12-15T05:00:00 Visions of the American West. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Perth, Australia (December 15, 1986-February 7, 1987); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (co-organizer) (February 23-April 6, 1987). title: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). title: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century opening date: 2004-08-15T00:00:00 Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'The Works of Thomas Moran, no. 82 (as The Smelters, Denver). Denver Art League, Denver, CO (December 1892). No. 53.', 'opening_date': '1892-12-01T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Memorial Exhibition: Water Color Sketches by Thomas Moran, N.A., no. 53 (as The Smelters, Denver, Col., June 12). The Milch Galleries, New York, NY (December 20, 1926 - January 8, 1927). No. 21', 'opening_date': '1926-12-20T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Water Colors by Thomas Moran, N.A., no. 6 (as The Smelters, Denver, Colorado). The Biltmore Salon, Los Angeles, CA (January 2 - January 29, 1927). No. 22.', 'opening_date': '1927-01-02T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4/19/98 - 7/12/98. "American Drawings from the Permanent Collection."', 'opening_date': '1998-04-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/15/04-11/14/04. "Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century". No exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '2004-08-15T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (The Milch Galleries, New York, NY, cat no. 21.) date: 1927-1927 footnotes: citations: (Biltmore Salon, Los Angeles, CA, January 1927, cat. no. 22, sold.) date: 1927 footnotes: citations: Henry A. [1856-1917] and Josephine P. [1866-1938] Everett, Cleveland, OH. date: 1927?-1938 footnotes: citations: Bequest of Josephine P. Everett to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection. date: 1938- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of pictures of Thomas Moran, N.A.; exhibited under the auspices of the Denver Art League, Christmas, 1892, 1892, File A, No. 88 (C-4), Moran Collection, East Hampton Library, East Hampton, New York. page number: Mentioned, P. 5, No. 53. url: The Milch Galleries, New York, NY. Memorial Exhibition: Water Color Sketches by Thomas Moran, N.A. December 20 - January 8, 1927. No. 21. page number: url: The Biltmore Salon, Los Angeles. CA. Water colors by Thomas Moran, N.A., 1837-1926. January 2 - January 29,1927. No. 22. page number: url: Francis, Henry Sayles, "In Memoriam: Josephine Pettengill Everett 1866-1937," The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art No. 6/part II (June, 1938): 123-130. page number: Mentioned, p. 129. url: “Cleveland: The Latest Additions to the Everett Collection.” Art News 36 Part II, no. 40. (Sep 17, 1938). page number: Mentioned, p. 16 url: Talbot, William S., "A Check List, American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art," Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 40, no. 1 (January 1973). page number: no. 137, illus. p. 31 url: Clark, Carol. Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West : Text and Catalogue Raisonné. Austin: Published for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art by the University of Texas Press, 1980. page number: pp. 55, 147, no. 191. url: Adams, Celeste, Franklin Kelly, and Ron Tyler. America: Art and the West. [New York]: American-Australian Foundation for the Arts and International Cultural Corporation of Australia; distributed by H.N. Abrams, New York, 1986. page number: cat. 28 url: Mansfield Art Center (Mansfield, Ohio). The American West from the Long Expedition to the Taos Society of Artists. Exhibition catalogue. The Mansfield Art Center, March 18-April 15, 1990. [Mansfield, Ohio]: [The Center], 1990. page number: no. 40 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.67/1938.67_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.67/1938.67_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.67/1938.67_full.tif