Summer Winds Down in East Hampton With an Art Exhibition Presented by the East Hampton Historical Society
The Thomas Moran & Mary Nimmo Moran Studio
Summer Winds Down With
a Lovely Art Exhibit Presented
by the East Hampton Historical Society
Welcome to The Sounding Sea
Water-influenced Paintings, Etchings and Drawings
Inspired by the Ocean
Thomas Moran, "Autumn on Peconic Bay" 1904
The Sounding Sea, the Art of Edward, Thomas & Mary Nimmo Moran on view at the Thomas & Mary Moran Studio at 229 Main Street in East Hampton through September 12, 2021. Hours are Thursday-Saturday, 11:00 am-3:00 pm. Note: For the final week of the exhibition, viewing dates will be extended: Wednesday, September 8th through Sunday, September, 12th, from 11 am-3 pm.
The Sounding Sea; The Art of Edward, Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran is currently on display at the Moran Studio, East Hampton Village. The Sounding Sea follows the careers of three members of one of America’s most illustrious family of artists, Edward Moran (1829-1902), his brother Thomas Moran (1837-1926) and Thomas’ wife, Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899). These artists are the crown jewels in the East End’s artistic lineage and legacy, and the exhibition revolves around water, and follows the muse of the ocean, a powerful subject that has lured artistic imagination to the East End of Long Island since its inception.
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Thomas Moran, “East Hampton, L.I.: Breezy Day at Main Beach” 1894
The Moran family channeled their love of the ocean, and took inspiration from local East End seascapes. Imagine seeing Georgica Pond through the eyes of Mary Nimmo Moran (1885), the romance of the Peconic Bay as seen by Thomas Moran (1904), or moonlight on waves in the North Fork from the perspective of Edward Moran (1881). The works on display will transport the viewer into the turn of the 20th Century – travel back in time to familiar East End seascapes, ever-changing yet as constant as the tide.
Mary Nimmo Moran, “Georgica Pond: Looking Seaward” 1885, etching on paper, East Hampton Library, Thomas Moran Biographical Collection
below- Edward Moran, Moonlite Waves:
Long Island’s North Fork, 1881, private collection
About The Studio of Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran
In 1884, the great American landscape painter Thomas Moran and his wife, Mary Nimmo Moran, a celebrated printmaker, and their children moved into their new studio and cottage that Moran himself designed on East Hampton’s historic Main Street. The Studio, as it has been known since the Moran family first occupied it, comprises the Moran’s studio and the rooms they lived in, as well as the gardens and outbuildings. The Moran Studio was the first artist’s studio built in East Hampton and it played a significant role in American art history. In its heyday The Studio was a lively center of East Hampton’s art colony. Through a meticulous five-year restoration project, the Moran Studio was salvaged from dilapidation, and proudly opened its doors to the public in July, 2018. Overlooking the Village Green and Town Pond, the property offers one of the most distinguished vistas on Long Island’s East End and serves as the gateway to East Hampton’s Main Street Historic District. In 1965, the Thomas Moran Studio became one of the first National Historic Landmarks in America — the highest recognition accorded by the Department of the Interior to the nation’s most historically significant properties. In 2019 the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio was accepted into The Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS) program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation!
