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Thomas Moran

Smelting Works at Denver

1892
watercolor and gouache

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Moran sketched this image while waiting for his travel arrangements to be resolved, having learned that he received a commission for a large painting of Wyoming for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

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