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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

   Forrest Lee Moses  Born:  1934 - Danville, Virginia
Died:   2021 - Palm Springs, California
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, crashin  ...  Displaying 750 of 7482 characters.

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