One of the West's most important paintings, Thomas Moran's Mountain of the Holy Cross, has returned to the Autry National Center in Los Angeles where after a year of travels with two separate exhibitions it again serves as the centerpiece for the museum's art collection. "It absolutely embodies cultural thinking about the West at the time of its creation: that the West was monumental and grand, the natural destination of the American people as the heirs of the New World," said Amy Scott, the Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross Curator of Visual Arts at the Autry National Center.
