Thomas Moran站在阳台上，抽着雪茄 ，1912托马斯·莫兰开始了他的艺术生涯是一个十几岁的徒弟费城木版画公司大肆挥霍的人&电动高架索道。莫兰发现雕刻过程“乏味的”空闲时间从事自己的水彩画。1850年代中期他画出版公司的插图而不是雕刻。那时,他遇到了书籍,其中包括英国艺术家的工作的例子,j·m·w·特纳在莫兰是一个持久的影响的工作。他也开始研究与当地画家詹姆斯汉密尔顿。莫兰前往英格兰在1862年看到特纳的工作。从那时起,他模拟特纳使用的颜色,他选择的风景,在水彩的灵感来源于他的探索,一个中等的特纳尤为著名。在1880年代和1870年代,莫兰的设计面向wood-engraved插图主要出现在杂志和礼物的出版物。虽然他掌握了多种印刷媒体包括木版画,蚀刻,光刻,他从他的兄弟,他收到了他的画作在石油和著名水彩。他职业生涯的高度正好与彩色石印术的流行,莫兰用来使颜色打印他的作品,这样他们可以广泛分布。他也是一个蚀刻复兴的领导人在美国和英国。
 科罗拉多河的大峡谷Moran嫁给了苏格兰出生 玛丽尼姆Moran （1842–1899），蚀刻和风景画家。这对夫妇有两个女儿和一个儿子。他的兄弟 爱德华 （1829–1901），约翰（1831–1902）和彼得（1841–1914），以及他的侄子 爱德华佩尔西莫兰 （1862–1935）和 Jean Leon杰罗姆费里斯 （1863–1930）也积极为艺术家。他死在 加州圣巴巴拉， 是8月26日，1926年。
 

Thomas Moran stood on the balcony, smoking a cigar, 1912 Thomas Moran began his career as a teenage apprentice Philadelphia woodcut company launch out people & telfer. Moran found the carving process "boring", free time to engage in their own watercolor painting. , in the middle of the 1850s, he drew pictures of the publishing company rather than carving. At that time, he met an example of the work of the book, including the work of British artists, J M W Turner in Moran is a lasting impact on the work.  he also began to study with the local painter James, Hamilton. Moran went to England in 1862 to see Turner's work. Since then, he has simulated the colors used by Turner, the landscape of his choice, and the inspiration of watercolor in his exploration, a medium Turner is particularly well known. In 1880s and in the year of 1870s, Moran's design for wood-engraved illustrations was primarily in magazines and gift publications. Although he has a variety of print media including woodcut, etching, lithography, he from his brother, he received his famous paintings in oil and watercolour. His occupation career coincided with the height of chromolithography pop, Moran used to make color printing of his works, so they can be widely distributed. He is also an etch Renaissance leader in the United States and the United kingdom.
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River Moran married Scotland born Marie Moran (1842 - 1899), etching and landscape painter in Nimes. The couple had two daughters and a son. His brother Edward (1829 - 1901), John (1831 - 1902) and Peter (1841 - 1914), and his nephew Edward Percy Moran (1862 - 1935) and Jean Leon Jerome Ferris (1863 - 1930) was positive for the artist. He died in California, Santa Barbara, August 26th, 1926.