   
  LEFT: Photograph of Thomas Moran at the Los Angeles railroad station, courtesy East Hampton Library RIGHT: Advertisement for Santa Fe Railroad published in Fine Arts Journal, January 1909 Commissioned by the Santa Fe Railroad to produce a painting of the Grand Canyon that could be used for marketing purposes, Moran entered a business relationship with the railroad that would prove one of the most sustained and profitable of his career. Eventually the artist became so closely identified with the canyon that the railroad used his picture in advertisements.
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