Barry Moser

Barry Moser (born 1940) is an artist, known as a printmaker and illustrator of numerous works of literature. He is also the owner, operator, and proprietor of Pennyroyal Press.

Biography

He was 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 Amherst. He studied with Leonard Baskin.

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, A River Runs Through It, and Moby-Dick. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Illustration Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, for many years he was on the faculty of the Williston Northampton School and is currently Professor in Residence and Printer to the College at 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.

Barry Moser also teaches Life Drawing at the Glen East Workshop, held every summer at Pioneer Valley, MA.

Further reading

• Simon Brett, 'Abigail Rorer & Barry Moser', in Parenthesis; 21 (2011 Autumn), p. 15-17
• Barry Moser, Wood Engraving: the Art of Wood Engraving & Relief Engraving (2006. David Godine)

Bibliography

• The Mother Goose Collection (1985)
• The Enchanted World: Giants and Ogres (1985)
• The Enchanted World: The Fall of Camelot (1986)
• In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World (1988)
• A River Runs Through It (1989)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1989)
• Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear (1990)
• And Still the Turtle Watched (1991)
• Polly Vaughn: A Traditional British Ballad (1992)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1992)
• Beauty and the Beast (1992)
• Speak!: Children's Book Illustrators Brag about their Dogs (1993)
• The Farm Summer 1942 (1994)
• I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat (1994)
• The Pageant (1995)
• Our New Puppy (1996)
• First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996)
• A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa (1997)
• Dippers (1997)
• Great Ghost Stories (1998)
• Dogs of Myth: Tales from Around the World (1999)
• Earthquack! (2002)
• That Summer (2002)
• Voices of Ancient Egypt (2003)
• Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems (2004)
• Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale (2004)
• The Three Silly Billies (2005)
• A Horse Named Funny Cide (2006)
• Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature (2007)
• Jack London's Dog (2008)
• Hogwood Steps Out: A Good, Good Pig Story (2008)
• Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes (2009)
• The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale (2011)
• Oh, Harry! (2011)
• Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World (2011)
• Cat Talk (2013)
• We Were Brothers (2015)

External links

• Barry Moser and his own 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
• Barry Moser etchings, engravings, and papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• The Papers of Barry Moser at the Dartmouth College Library
• Barry Moser at Library of Congress, with 144 library catalog records