4. Mary Nimmo Moran
(1842-1899)

The Passaic at Newark, New Jersey

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Moran: The Passaic

The Passaic at Newark, New Jersey

Etching, 1879, 106 x 178 mm., Klackner 5, Gilcrease Institute 76. Fine impression, printed with plate tone, on imperial japan paper with full margins, signed in pencil. Mary Nimmo was born in Strathaven, Scotland, immigrated at a young age with her family to Pennsylvania, and, some years later, married her then-neighbor and art teacher, Thomas Moran. She was among the first, and certainly among the most eminent, of American women etchers. The image here is anything but bucolic and shows an interest in industrial landscape comparable to Whistler's in England twenty years earlier, though Whistler’s work had no echo in America at the time.