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Peter Moran (March 4, 1841 – November 9, 1914) was a British-born American painter and etcher.

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Peter Moran
Mowing, 1887
Etching, 16 1/2" x 23"
Illinois State Museum collection

This scene shows how hay mowing was done before the steam tractor came along. It also shows the vast, flat land that was the prairie that had been transformed by the settlers into farm fields. The delicate lines of the etching give a fine texture to the image. The slightly low horizon line emphasizes the empty sky and the small number of trees.

Peter Moran

Peter Moran came from a family artists. His brothers Edward and Thomas were painters and etchers, and a sister-in-law, Mary Nimmo Moran, was an etcher. Peter was born in England and came to the United States at the age of three. He trained in a lithographic shop, but did not like it. He decided to become an artist, and admired animal painters like the famous Edwin Landseer. Later he became very interested in scenes of the wild west as it was being settled. He learned etching, and became one of the best in the country. He was president of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers.

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Today we'll wrap up our little tour of the Moran family with one of Thomas's younger sibling, the painter and etcher Peter Moran (1841-1914). There were plenty of other artistic siblings and children within the Moran family, but we'll take a look at them another time.

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Peter started out his career working at a lithography shop, but just as Thomas had found the work of wood engraving rather tedious, so Peter was less than thrilled with the technical nature of creating lithographs. He subsequently studied with two of his brothers, Thomas and Edward, who were already finding success as artists in Philadelphia. Whereas Thomas Moran became known for his grandiose landscapes, Peter preferred focusing on more bucolic subjects, and became particularly known for his work with animals.

The Herd Returning Home, ca. 1875, 42" x 84 1/2". Image courtesy of http://scottsdaleartauction.com/peter-moran-the-herd-returning-home/

Mowing, 1887, etchin

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Peter Moran (painter)

American etcher and painter (1841–1914)

Peter Moran (March 4, 1841 – November 9, 1914) was a British-born American painter and etcher. His siblings Thomas and Edward were also painters and his brother John was an important Philadelphia photographer. Peter Moran is best known as a printmaker during the etching revival of the 1880s.

Biography

Early life and apprenticeship

Peter Moran was born in Bolton, Lancashire, the youngest of Mary (née Higson) and Thomas Moran Sr. He was a child when his parents and six siblings settled in Kensington, a suburb of Philadelphia. Three younger siblings were born after the family settled in Pennsylvania.^[1]

Moran began his career as an apprentice with the Philadelphia printing firm of Herline & Hensel and worked briefly as a lithographer. According to the United States Census of 1860, he also trained as a chair painter’s apprentice.^[2]

Peter Moran learned easel painting from his older brothers Edward and Thomas and traveled to England in 1863 to see the animal paintings of Ed