Fort George Island, Florida
Thomas Moran (American, born England, 1837–1926)
1878
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 64.8 x 54.7 cm (25 1/2 x 21 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
At a time when the northeast coast of Florida was becoming a popular tourist destination, Thomas Moran visited the area in February and March of 1877. He made many sketches around St. Augustine and Jacksonville. During the coming months, back in his Newark, NJ, studio, the artist used these sketches as source material for more than a dozen oil paintings, including Fort George Island, Florida.
