Fort George Island, Florida

Artist
Thomas Moran
Year
1878
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
Unframed: 64.8 × 54.7 cm (25 1/2 × 21 9/16 in.)

Warm afternoon light falls across a live-oak hammock on a barrier island off the northeast Florida coast. Thomas Moran — best known for the vast canvases that helped create the national-parks movement — brings the same attentive eye for atmosphere to this intimate landscape, painting the lush subtropical growth with fine, dappled brushwork.