Biografie von James Henry MOSER (1854-1913)

Birth place: Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Death place: Wash., DC

Addresses: Atlanta, GA; West Cornwall, MA

Profession: Painter, illustrator, teacher, art critic

Studied: J.H. Witt; ASL with C.H. Davis.

Exhibited: NAD, 1881-90; Brooklyn AA, 1881-83; PAFA Ann., 1882, 1895-97, 1903; Boston AC, 1889-1908; Richmond AC; SC; NYWCC; Copley Soc.; AIC; St. Louis Mus.; Albright Gal.; Worcester Art Mus.; Soc. Wash. Artists, 1891-1913; NMAA; Corcoran Gal. annuals, 1907-08, 1910; V.G. Filcher Gal. (solo); Woodward & Lothrop Art Gal. (solo); Morrey Gal. (solo); World Columbian Expo, 1893; Atlanta Expo, 1895 (med.); Wash. WCC 1900 (First Corcoran prize), 1903 (Parsons Prize); Pan-Am. Expo, 1901; Charleston Expo, 1902 (med.); Universal Expo, St. Louis, 1904; Lewis and Clark Centennial Expo, 1905; Appalachian Expo, 1910; Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915

Member: AWCS; NYWCC; Wash. WCC; Wash. Soc. FA; Soc. Wash. Artists; SC, 1908.

Work: NMAA (self portrait); MMA; White House; Cooper Hewitt Mus.; NGA; CGA. Commissions: series of watercolors for the Great Southern Railroad.

Comments: After studying in New York, Moser worked and exhibited in Toledo, Philadelphia, Boston, from 1875-77. He moved to Galvelston and Vicksburg with his family; and then to Atlanta in 1879, where he remained until 1886, marrying artist Martha Scoville in 1883. In 1886, he moved to Wash., DC, where he worked as an illustrator and an art critic for the Washington Times, the Post and the Herald. He was the illustrator, with F.S. Church, of the first published volume, Uncle Remus,1881, by J.C. Harris. Positions: free lance illustr., Harper's Century, Leslie's, and Atlantic Monthly magazines; teacher, watercolor painting, CGA & Columbian Univ. (now George Wash. Univ.); asst. dir., Knoxville (TN) Expo, 1910.

Sources: WW13; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C; Falk, Exh. Record Series.