Thomas Moran

Manifest Destiny, in art

2011-08-21 00:00:00

In 1861 Carleton Watkins took the definitive picture of Yosemite Valley from the aptly named Inspiration Point. The sheer granite wall of El Capitan, as sharp as if cut with a cleaver, fills one side of the photo. A rising tier of rock monoliths marches...

Art review: Joan Nelson at Michael Kohn Gallery

2011-08-04 21:33:15

Elk, crowds and the wild West in Yellowstone National Park and Cody, Wyoming

2010-07-25 00:00:00

You know western Wyoming and dumb luck are both on your side when: • Your daughter spies three mule deer in a Yellowstone meadow. Then a moose mid-river. Then bison, fox and marmot, trumpeter swans, a wayward seagull and a grizzly family —...

Art Review: Gegam Kacherian paintings at Rosamund Felsen Gallery

2009-09-18 16:32:39

Art review: Zhi Lin at Koplin Del Rio

2009-11-27 16:32:40

American art gets a higher profile in U.S. museums

2009-05-30 00:00:00

Long the stepchild of a Eurocentric art world, American art is finding new favor at home as a growing number of institutions showcase work from Colonial times to World War II. Today, the Huntington in San Marino will join the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

Drama along the Grand Canyon North Rim

2008-07-02 00:00:00

Grand Canyon North Rim, Arizona My brother, John, loves deserts, slot canyons, mesas, buttes and treacherous dirt roads. At home, he pores over U.S. Geological Survey maps, dog-ears pages in hiking books, studies dry treatises on the archaeology and...

A grownup's Orlando

2008-04-22 17:20:31

Cities, with the exception of greater Las Vegas, aren't built for amusement. They're built to function as market hubs and transport hubs and government hubs, and then people build houses to be near the jobs generated by all that hubness. Gradually come...

'Soul of Nowhere: Traversing Grace in a Rugged Land' by Craig Childs

2002-11-17 00:00:00

First-rate writers and books keep emerging from the American West and delineating the Western experience in smart, edgy ways. Lately there have been Judy Blunt, a memoirist who tells of leaving the constraints of ranch life in the vicinity of Montana's...

Smithsburg Middle School honor roll

2012-05-16 11:45:00

Smithsburg Middle School Fifth marking period Distinguished honor roll Grade six — Bryce H. Arnold, Brett D. Baile, Hannah J. Barbarino, Matthew S. Burke, Alissa N. Callis Stottlemyer, Lucy E. Conrey, Lauryn M. Daniels, Elizabeth G. Harshman,...

Smithsburg Middle School honor rolls

2012-04-03 16:30:00

Distinguished honor roll Grade six — Bryce H. Arnold, Brett D. Baile, Kaylee M. Bonenberger, Megan E. Bonham, Matthew S. Burke, Alissa N. Callis Stottlemyer, Lucy E. Conrey, Lauryn M. Daniels, Seth D. Dodson, Benjamin M. Hixon, Charles A....

Orlando Museum of Art upcoming season has Florida focus

2011-07-06 16:37:19

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Thomas Moran.

2003-03-23 00:00:00