Above Tower Falls, Yellowstone

Thomas Moran (American, 1837–1926)

Date: 1872
Medium: watercolor and gouache on paper
Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, accession 1958.5.3. See the museum’s record
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 2.5 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

Standard paper sizes that keep this painting’s proportions, the frames that fit them, and how sharp each one prints.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
5 × 7 in	trims 4.2 %	4¾ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	396 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 2.5 %	20 × 29¼ in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	96 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 2.5 %	24 × 35 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	80 dpi, soft up close

Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 383 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 577 × 843 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Print file 1,368 × 2,000 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Original file 1,983 × 2,900 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
The museum’s record of this painting Smithsonian American Art Museum

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.