Title The Juniata, Evening Creator Thomas Moran Date Created 1864 Physical Dimensions overall 50.8 x 76.2 cm (20 x 30 in.) framed 79.38 ¡Á 105.09 ¡Á 11.75 cm (31 1/4 ¡Á 41 3/8 ¡Á 4 5/8 in.) Provenance Purchased, and possibly commissioned, 1864 by George Frederick Tyler, Philadelphia.[1] Spears collection.[2] (Henry Schultheis Co., New York); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 24 February 1938, no. 35, as _Western Landscape_); P. Kachurn.[3] private collection, from the 1960s; acquired by Mrs. Kachurian; gift to her son, Leon Kachurian; acquired September 1998 by (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe);[4] sold 1998 to Vern Milligan [d. 2012], Denver; purchased 26 October 2010 by NGA. [1] This is recorded by the artist in his Opus List (4026.4048, Archive, Gilcrease Museum, Tusla), in which the painting is number 8. O.P.8 is inscribed on the canvas below the signature. See Nancy K. Anderson, _Thomas Moran_, exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa; Seattle Art Museum, New Haven and London, 1997 189, 350, 352. [2] This collection is named in the 1938 sale catalogue. [3] The consignor's and buyer's names related to the 1938 auction were kindly provided by Sotheby's department of American art (personal communication, 22 July 2013, recorded in NGA curatorial files). It is possible that Kachurn was a misspelling of Kachurian and that the painting remained in the Kachurian family from the 1938 sale until the 1998 sale to the Peters Gallery. A label from Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York (now in NGA curatorial files), with the title _Landscape with Self-Portrait_, was on the painting's frame, but it has not yet been determined when this dealer had possession. [4] Information about ownership of the painting by the Kachurians was kindly provided by the Gerald Peters Gallery (e-mails of 11 July 2013, in NGA curatorial files). Rights CC0 Medium oil on canvas
