Painter, muralist. Born in Taunton, England on Nov. 24,1877. Moore studied at the Liverpool Art School and Royal Institute. In 1903 he immigrated to America and had further study with Henry Ward Ranger. By 1910 he was an established artist in NYC and in that year moved to Hawaii where he was purchasing agent for Hawaii Plantations and later served as director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. In 1928 he sailed for California and worked briefly in Pasadena and San Francisco before settling in Carmel. He specialized in poetic depictions of the coast and scenic spots on the Monterey Peninsula. His best known work is the Picture Bridge, a series of 41 murals in the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. Moore died in Carmel on March 5,1967.
Member:
Salmagundi Club; NY WC Club; Pasadena Society of Artists; Calif. WC Society; AFA; Carmel AA; Society for Sanity in Art.
Exhibited:
CGA; PAFA; St Louis Art Museum; GGIE, 1939; Santa Cruz, 1944; Carmel AA, 1945, 1946; NAD.
Awards:
First prize and Logan medal, Society for Sanity in Art, CPLH, 1944.
Works Held:
USIVIC Headquarters, SF; Auckland (UZ) Museum; Honolulu Academy of Art.
Listed:
CA&A; Fld; Who's Who in the West, 1954; YAMP; Art & Artists on the Monterey Peninsula; AAW; AAA 1919-33; WWAA 1936-62; SCA; DR.
Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton
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