Barry Moser
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Barry Moser (born 1940) is a renowned artist, most famous as a printmaker and illustrator of numerous works of literature.
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1940, Moser studied at the Baylor School, Auburn University, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and did graduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He studied with Leonard Baskin. [1] Some of his most celebrated work has been his illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, each of which consisted of more than a hundred prints, and the former of which won him American Book Award for design and illustration in 1982. He has illustrated nearly 200 other works as well, including The Bible (ISBN 0520043545) and Moby-Dick (ISBN 0142005029) . He currently serves on the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design and Smith College.
His works have been displayed in such places as the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, Harvard, and the Library of Congress.
In 2007 the Smithsonian Art Collectors Program commissioned Moser to create a print for their Small Treasures series, the sales of which benefit educational and cultural programs through the Smithsonian Associates. The resulting relief engraving, An Old Chestnut is on display in the S. Dillon Ripley Center in the National Mall.
[edit] References
- ^ Melville, Herman, Moby Dick, or The Whale, University of california Press, Berkeley, CA 1981
[edit] External links
- Barry Moser and the Pennyroyal Press
- 1999 Underdown.org interview
- Gallery of various work
- The Career Cookbook Barry Moser Profile
- Barry Moser's An Old Chestnut, Smithsonian Art Collectors Program
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