Mary Nimmo Moran

Mary Nimmo Moran (May 16, 1842 – September 25, 1899) was an American 19th-century landscape printmaker, specializing in etchings. 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.[1] Mary Nimmo Moran's landscape View of Newark from the Meadows is in the collection of The Newark Museum of Art.[2]

Mary Nimmo Moran
Born
Mary Nimmo

(1842-05-16)May 16, 1842
Strathaven, Scotland
DiedSeptember 25, 1899(1899-09-25) (aged 57)
East Hampton, New York
Resting placeGoose Pond, East Hampton, New York
Known forEtching
Spouse(s)
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(m. after 1862)​

Born in Scotland, she immigrated to the United States at the age of five with her widowed father and brother; they settled in Philadelphia. She married American artist and illustrator Thomas Moran, and they had a family together.

Biography
Mary Nimmo Moran, Across The Water, ca. 1880–1890. Etching, 5 7/8 x 8 in. (14.9 x 20.2 cm)

Mary Nimmo was born in Strathaven, Scotland in 1842 to Mary and Alfred Nimmo, a family of weavers. Following the death of her mother in 1847, when Mary was five, her father took her and her brother with him to the United States, settling in Crescentville, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1863 she began studying art with her neighbor Thomas Moran,[3] who was gaining a local reputation as an artist.

Two years later, the couple married and moved to Philadelphia, where they had two daughters and a son together. In 1879, her husband introduced Nimmo Moran to the technique of etching by directly working on a copper plate. Her first etching was a Florida landscape, which she created from a memory of a family trip in 1877.[4] She made most of her etchings on location near her various homes, as responsibilities to her growing family strongly limited her travel.[5]

She was elected to the Society of Painter-Etchers of New York. She was the only woman among the 65 original fellows chosen for London's Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.[1] Her prints were recognized for their boldness and originality, and were collected by the British critic John Ruskin among others.[5] Mary Nimmo Moran often signed her etchings "M. Nimmo Moran" or "M. N. Moran", leading many people, including the membership committees, to believe she was a male artist.[6]

The Moran family relocated to Newark, New Jersey in 1872. In 1884 they moved to East Hampton, Long Island. This town became the subject of many of Nimmo Moran's most successful etchings. The Moran home in East Hampton became the center of a productive artists' colony and is today designated as a National Historic Landmark.[7] It is also a contributing property to the East Hampton Village District, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Nimmo Moran exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[8]

Nimmo Moran was described as simultaneously charming, personable, and bright, and modest and humble. Notably, she was well-versed in many different fields of artistry.[9]

Death

Moran died of typhoid fever in 1899, after nursing her daughter Ruth through the disease. She was buried beside Goose Pond, a subject of many of her etchings, near her home in East Hampton.[10][11]

Auction record

On 9 June 2011, Swann Galleries auctioned Mary Nimmo Moran's Long Island Landscape, an 1880 oil on panel, which was her first painting to appear at auction. It sold for $64,800.[12]

Artworks
Name Date Medium Size
Across the Water[13] ca. 1880–1890 etching 5 7/8 x 8 in. (14.9 x 20.2 cm)
The Bay[14] ca. 1880–1890 etching 8 x 11 5/8 in. (20.3 x 29.5 cm)
Bridge over the Buskill, Easton, Pa.[15] 1879 etching 7 x 4 in. (17.7 x 10.3 cm)
Cattails and Trees[16] ca. 1880–1890 etching 4 x 7 in. (10.3 x 17.8 cm)
Cattle in a Pond[17] 1881 etching 5 3/4 x 9 in. (14.8 x 22.7 cm)
The Coast of Florida[18] 1887 etching 3 1/4 x 6 in. (8.3 x 15.1 cm)
Gardiner's Bay, L.I., Seen from Fresh Pond[19] 1884 etching on parchment 7 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (19.8 x 29.2 cm)
Home of the Muskrat[20] 1884 etching 4 5/8 x 11 3/8 in. (11.7 x 28.9 cm)
House by a Stream[21] 1881 etching 12 x 6 in. (30.5 x 15.2 cm)
Long Island Landscape[12] 1880 oil on panel 19 3/4 x 30 in. (50 x76 cm)
Looking Seaward[22] 1885 etching 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (29.3 x 44.4 cm)
Meadowland[23] 1884 etching 5 x 11 1/2 in. (12.7 x 29.2 cm)
My Neighbor's Home--Easthampton[24] 1883 etching 8 x 11 7/8 in. (20.3 x 30.3 cm)
The Old Homestead[25] 1880 etching on chine collé 7 3/4 x 12 in. (19.7 x 30.4 cm)
Old Lindens--Near Easthampton[26] 1885 etching 8 x 11 7/8 in. (20.2 x 30.2 cm)
Salt Water Ponds[27] 1884 etching 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (24.8 x 28.7 cm)
The Garden Path, Easthampton[28] 1894 oil on artist's board 14 x10 in. (35.7 x 25.5 cm)
The "Home Sweet Home" of John Howard Payne, Easthampton[29] 1885 etching 16 x 13 1/8 in. (40.5 x 33.2 cm)
The Sea through the Woods[30] ca. 1880–1890 etching 8 x 5 3/4 in. (20.3 x 14.8 cm)
Three Maidens at the River[31] ca.1880–1890 etching 6 13/16 x 5 3/16 in. (17.3 x 14.7 cm.)
Twilight[32] ca. 1880–1890 etching, roulette, sandpaper, and scotchstone on paper 3 x 5 1/2 in. (7.8 x 13.8 cm)

References
  1. Engel, Lang, Gladys (1990). Etched in Memory: The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 48. ISBN 0807819085. OCLC 20825806.
  2. "Search Our Collection | Newark Museum". www.newarkmuseumart.org. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  3. Vittoria, Shannon. "Nature and Nostalgia in the Art of Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899)". CUNY Academic Works. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  4. Siegel, Nancy (2001). The Morans: the Artistry of a Nineteenth-Century Family of Painter-Etchers. Huntington, PA: Juniata College. p. 35.
  5. "Mary Nimmo Moran | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  6. Siegel, Nancy (2001). the Morans: the Artistry of a Nineteenth-Century Family of Painter-Etchers. Huntingdon, PA: Juniata College Museum of Art. p. 40.
  7. "Joint Effort To Preserve Thomas Moran House Moves Forward | |". www.hamptons.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  8. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  9. Schmid, Elizabeth Carroll; Kinsey, Joni; University of Iowa; School of Art and Art History (2014-01-01). Mary Nimmo Moran, Mary Cassatt and the painter-etcher movement: gender, identity and paths to professionalism. p. 37.
  10. "Mary Nimmo Moran | National Museum of Women in the Arts". nmwa.org. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  11. Francis, Marilyn G. (1983-01-01). "Mary Nimmo Moran: Painter-Etcher". Woman's Art Journal. 4 (2): 14–19. doi:10.2307/1357940. JSTOR 1357940.
  12. "Full Details for Lot 82". catalogue.swanngalleries.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  13. "Across the Water by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  14. "The Bay by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  15. "Bridge over the Buskill, Easton, Pa. by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  16. "Cattails and Trees by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  17. "Cattle in a Pond by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  18. "The Coast of Florida by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  19. "Gardiner's Bay, L.I., Seen from Fresh Pond by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  20. "Home of the Muskrat by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  21. "House by a Stream by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  22. "Looking Seaward by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  23. "Meadowland by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  24. "My Neighbor's Home--Easthampton by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  25. "The Old Homestead by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  26. "Old Lindens--Near Easthampton by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  27. "Salt Water Ponds by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  28. "Full Details for Lot 14". catalogue.swanngalleries.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  29. "Full Details for Lot 527". catalogue.swanngalleries.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  30. "The Sea through the Woods by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  31. "(Three Maidens at the River) by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  32. "Twilight by Mary Nimmo Moran / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  • Wilkins, Thurman, Caroline L. Hinkley, William H. Goetzmann, Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains, University of Oklahoma Press, 1998; ISBN 978-0-8061-3040-8.
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