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Mary Nimmo Moran

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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/saam_1975.50.5
Tier 1 · Institutional90%

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Mary Nimmo Moran was an American landscape printmaker, specializing in etchings. Referred to by Mark Spanner on the Arte website as "perhaps the first woman to prove marriage and family were not insurmountable to success." She was the first of many landscape artists and in 1880 she was known as a landscape etcher. She completed roughly 70 landscape etchings, which included scenes of England and Scotland, as well as Long Island, New York; New Jersey, Florida, and Pennsylvania. In 1881, she was one of eight Americans and the first female elected as a fellow to London's Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. Mary Nimmo Moran's landscape View of Newark from the Meadows is in the collection of The Newark Museum of Art. She was among the earliest American Artists to explore the medium of etching.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (7)

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Interior of a California Forest (after Thomas Moran (American, 1837-1926)),

1888 · etching on chine collé

Sheet: 40.5 x 29.4 cm (15 15/16 x 11 9/16 in.); Platemark: 30 x 20.5 cm (11 13/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

A California Forest

1888 · Etching and roulette on paper

Image: 29.7 × 20.3 cm (11 3/4 × 8 in.); Plate: 32.5 × 22.3 cm (12 13/16 × 8 13/16 in.); Sheet: 46.9 × 32.2 cm (18 1/2 × 12 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape with Mill and a Wooden Bridge

1883 · Etching and mezzotint in brown on cream Japanese paper

Image: 19 × 28.8 cm (7 1/2 × 11 3/8 in.); Plate: 20.1 × 29.8 cm (7 15/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 38.1 × 50.3 cm (15 × 19 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Tween the Gleamin and the Mirk, When the Kye come Hame

1883 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Goose Pond, East Hampton

1881 · Etching in black on cream Japanese paper

Plate: 18 × 22.6 cm (7 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 26.3 × 30.3 cm (10 3/8 × 11 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Gardiner's Bay, Long Island, seen from Fresh Pond

1881 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cliff Dwellers of New York

1881 · Etching and scotch stone tone, printed in brown ink

sheet: 12 5/8 x 18 7/8 in. (32 x 47.9 cm) plate: 8 1/16 x 11 15/16 in. (20.5 x 30.3 cm) image: 8 1/16 x 11 15/16 in. (20.5 x 30.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Tween the Gleamin and the Mirk, When the Kye come Hame
1883 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Gardiner's Bay, Long Island, seen from Fresh Pond
1881 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Interior of a California Forest (after Thomas Moran (American, 1837-1926)),
1888 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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