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[4] NAMMOR_170820_17.JPG	[5] NAMMOR_170820_22.JPG	[6] NAMMOR_170820_25.JPG
[7] NAMMOR_170820_32.JPG	[8] NAMMOR_170820_37.JPG	[9] NAMMOR_170820_41.JPG
[10] NAMMOR_170820_43.JPG	[11] NAMMOR_170820_51.JPG	[12] NAMMOR_170820_54.JPG
[13] NAMMOR_170820_62.JPG	[14] NAMMOR_170820_66.JPG	[15] NAMMOR_170820_76.JPG
[16] NAMMOR_170820_80.JPG	[17] NAMMOR_170820_83.JPG	[18] NAMMOR_170820_87.JPG

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NAMMOR_170820_01.JPG: Midnight Mass on the Mississippi over the Body of Hernando DeSoto, 1542 by Edward Moran
2. NAMMOR_170820_08.JPG: Midnight Mass on the Mississippi over the Body of Hernando DeSoto, 1542 by Edward Moran
3. NAMMOR_170820_12.JPG: Landing of Lief Erikson in the New World in 1001 by Edward Moran
4. NAMMOR_170820_17.JPG: Landing of Lief Erikson in the New World in 1001 by Edward Moran
5. NAMMOR_170820_22.JPG: Edward Moran's Series of Historical Marine Paintings Celebrating American Maritime History
6. NAMMOR_170820_32.JPG: Embarkation of the Pilgrims for Southhampton August 6, 1620 by Edward Moran
7. NAMMOR_170820_37.JPG: Embarkation of the Pilgrims for Southhampton August 6, 1620 by Edward Moran
8. NAMMOR_170820_41.JPG: Henry Hudson Entering New York Bay, September 11, 1609 by Edward Moran
9. NAMMOR_170820_51.JPG: Henry Hudson Entering New York Bay, September 11, 1609 by Edward Moran
10. NAMMOR_170820_54.JPG: The Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta, Evening of October 11, 1492 by Edward Moran
11. NAMMOR_170820_62.JPG: The Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta, Evening of October 11, 1492 by Edward Moran
12. NAMMOR_170820_66.JPG: THE OCEAN -- THE HIGHWAY OF ALL NATIONS.[C] This picture has already been briefly referred to, and is considered by some critics the greatest of the thirteen. Probably no such sublime ocean has ever been painted. How thoroughly it appeals to those who best know the sea is illustrated by the blunt but expressive compliment bestowed upon it by Admiral Hopkins of the English navy when, in 1892, he saw it in the Union League Club of New York, where it was being privately shown. After silently studying it for some minutes he turned to Mr. Joseph H. Choate, whose guest he was, and said: "I have always believed that only an Englishman could paint the sea, but it seems that I had to come to America to look upon the most almighty sea that I have ever beheld on canvas." Admiral Hopkins was not aware that, in this, he was in fact complimenting one of his own fellow-countrymen, though, in truth, Mr. Moran had become an American of Americans through his patriotic ardor and long residence here. In this painting the powers of Mr. Moran as an artist were tested to the utmost. For while others have at[Pg 28]tempted to paint the sea, among whom Turner stands pre-eminent, few have ever succeeded in depicting it on so large a scale, without a single other object to disturb the aspect excepting only the thirteen sea-gulls hovering over its surface, which through their number suggest the whole series of these paintings and the interesting events connected with the marine history of the United States. This picture is the largest of the series. Not only the water but the sky in this painting is superb, with the faint shimmer of the sunlight breaking through the clouds. The color is that peculiar green gray, which is the most fascinating hue known to the sea, and only present when the sky is overcast. The water and the motion of the waves are grand beyond comparison -- an actual living, moving, foaming mass and as seen in mid-ocean. The conception of this painting as introductory to the whole series is most poetic. It suggests the deep, dark, dreaded, unknown waste of waters which was shrouded in mystery for thousands of years until a few daring seamen, first the Norsemen, and then Columbus with his little band, undertook the perilous task of lifting the veil. Its unexplored expanse naturally and logically preceded every voyage of discovery and is the keynote of all the marvellous achievements which subsequently constituted it the link between America and the Eastern world. It also typifies the greatest of all republics, which was to spring up beyond its westernmost limits, for nothing is so free, unfettered and seemingly conscious of its own strength and possibilities as the mighty ocean. This painting may be likened to the opening stanzas of an epic poem, in which the theme of the story is foreshadowed, and no grander epic was ever written than is depicted in these thirteen mighty paintings, of all those qualities of heroism and adventure which have ever been thought worthy of commemoration in song or story. How well the famous stanzas of Lord Byron, in Childe[Pg 29] Harold's Pilgrimage, illustrate the thoughts suggested by this "Ocean" of Edward Moran: "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean -- roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin -- his control Stops with the shore; -- upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. * * * * * * * * * "Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed -- in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; -- boundless, endless and sublime -- The image of Eternity -- the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone." The above from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24990/24990-h/24990-h.htm
13. NAMMOR_170820_76.JPG: The Ocean -- Highway of All Nations by Edward Moran
14. NAMMOR_170820_87.JPG: Edward Moran's Series of Historical Marine Paintings Celebrating American Maritime History
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