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A tall, reddish-brown, spearhead-shaped rock formation slices up from a churning river into the sky in this vertical watercolor painting. To the right, a lower formation has a flattened top with what appear to be teeth-like boulders along the top. The river flows across the lower third of the painting and is painted with dark blues and greens, with white highlights suggesting fast-moving water. Several large, rounded boulders sit in the river and along its shore in the bottom center of the composition. To the right, the sandy bank slopes upward and is scattered with rounded stones and tufts…

Tower at Tower Falls, Yellowstone

Thomas Moran (American, born England, 1837 - 1926)

1872 · watercolor and gouache over graphite on blue laid paper

National Gallery of Art · Florian Carr Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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