In the summer of 2021, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art is set to unveil the watercolor Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah (ca.
1879) by Thomas Moran in an exhibition that will explore the origin of the work — a little-known story of the artist’s westward journey along the transcontinental railroad — within the context of both the history and the art of the period, as well as Moran’s renowned career.
The newly acquired watercolor will be exhibited alongside a variety of Moran’s work, including an oil painting and prints from the museum’s collection as well as contemporaneous photographs, watercolors and ephemera “illuminating the life and cultural backdrop of one of America’s most important landscape