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Typed Letter Signed. Santa Barbara, April 15, [19]25. 1 1/4 page, 12mo; horizontal center crease along old fold, paper clip residue at blank head. To (Sharpless Dodson) Green, as above, "...in what ever you do - to work for the love of your work... I have had one aim all my life - to be a good painter, I am eighty six years old and still painting, it gives me as much joy today as when I began as a young man..."
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape, in particular, the American West.
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