WASHINGTON, DC.- The Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, voted last week to acquire The Juniata, Evening, an exceptional painting done in 1864 by American artist Thomas Moran (1837-1926). Purchased from a private collection with funds from Max and Heidi Berry and Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation, the Pennsylvania landscape has never been exhibited publicly. It is the second painting by Moran to enter the Gallery’s collection; the first is The Much Resounding Sea (1884). “Since 1997, when the Gallery hosted a Moran retrospective, we have actively searched for superior examples of Moran’s work,” said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. “The Juniata, Evening, unknown to us at the time of the retrospective, is the most important and the most beautiful of Moran’s