Sand Dunes, Long Island Coast
Date1880
Artist
Thomas Moran
(American painter and printmaker, 1837–1926)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 6 × 11 3/4 in. (15.2 × 29.8 cm)
sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 1/2 in. (30.2 × 44.5 cm)
sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 1/2 in. (30.2 × 44.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Joseph S. Gotlieb, 1967
Object number1967-38
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextShortly after this print was made, the art critic Sylvester Koehler enthused about Moran's recent sea scenes: "As we look at it we seem to enjoy again the mornings spent on the sea-shore, the exhilerating freshness and freedom of which still linger in our memory, and the vast expanse which spreads away into the distance before us gives to these few inches of paper the semblance of infinity."
