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Forrest Lee Moses

Forrest Lee Moses (1934 - 2021) was active/lived in New Mexico.  Forrest Moses is known for Modernist-leaning landscape painting, monotype.

A passion for traveling and shooting landscape photography fuels the paintings and monotypes by Santa Fe-based artist Forrest Moses.  Born 1934 in Virginia, he earned his BFA from Washington and Lee University in 1956 and served as a naval officer in the Philippines, Japan, and other Far East destinations, which had a strong visual and philosophical influence on him.

He discovered art and architecture the year he spent in Europe and formalized his education in graduate school at Pratt Institute in New York.  Moses designed interiors, furniture, and ceramics in Houston before turning to full-time painting.  In 1965 he moved to the Monterey Peninsula in California, an area rich with rollicking hills, crashing waves, hushed forests, and a peaceful nature — perfect for his preferred isolation and routine.

Painting became Moses' exercise in contemplating of nature and unfolding truth by observation.  His emphasis on land and sea teetered o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7482 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Forrest Lee Moses

   Publications  Book References:  13
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Forrest Lee Moses
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art-Talk NM Muy Caliente en Santa Fe June 2004 Morrison, Shari Yes
Southwest Art The Zen of Painting April 2004 Jackson, Devon Yes
Southwest Art In High Gear April 2004 Schneider, Wolf Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions June 1998 Editors, Art in America Yes
13 Book References for Forrest Lee Moses
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2004 McKay, Mary Terence Forrest Moses 224 Yes
2001 Editor, Kensho Publishing Forrest Moses 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1996 Adlmann, Jan/Barbara McIntyre Contemporary Art in New Mexico 226 Yes
1995 Cline Fine Art Gallery Enduring Inspiration New Mexico Landscape Painting 1995
(Exhibition catalog)
32 Yes
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1989 Munson Gallery Forrest Moses Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
16 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1959 Wenzell, C R Artists of Santa Fe: Their Works and Words 50 No
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