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Sheer, vertical, cliffs, brightly lit in cream white and rust orange by the low sun, tower over a band of people riding horses into the distance in this long, horizontal landscape painting. The glowing cliffs dominate the upper right quadrant of the painting. They lighten from burnt orange along the jagged tops to flame orange down the steep sides, and are and warm, parchment white near the earth. One tall, narrow promontory to our right looms over a range of lower, rounded cliffs. As the cliffs move into the distance, they are shrouded with a lavender-purple haze. The land closest to us…

Green River Cliffs, Wyoming

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

1881 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of the Milligan and Thomson Families

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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