124:). His brother Thomas and his brother-in-law Stephen Ferris had participated in a lecture series at the School of Design the previous year. Ferris continued his affiliation with the School of Design for nearly twenty-five years, teaching figure drawing and painting from live models and plaster casts of statues. Peter Moran’s teaching career lasted thirty years: after his start as a lecturer in 1866, he was hired full-time in 1872 and taught etching as well as landscape painting in oil and watercolor until 1896.
97:. Recent research indicates his first visit to New Mexico occurred in 1880 rather than 1864, as previously believed. Moran is best known for his work in etching, and he was a leader in Philadelphia’s etching revival of the 1880s. The first exhibition of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers, held in the winter of 1882-83, included prints by him and by other members of his family. Moran’s wife Emily Kelley Moran was also an etcher and painter.
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