biografía de Benson Bond MOORE (1882-1974)

Lugar de nacimiento: Washington, DC

Lugar de defunción: Sarasota, FL

Direcciones: Washington, DC, through c.1950; Sarasota, FL, from 1950s

Profesión: Painter, etcher, teacher, illustrator, restorer

Estudios: framing & restoration with his father, John Benson Moore; Linthicum Inst.; Corcoran Sch. Art with Edmund C. Messer, Richard Norris Brooke & Max Weyl

Exposiciones: S. Indp. A., 1919; Soc. Wash. Artists, frequently (prize, 1935); Lowdermilk's, Wash., DC, 1924 (solo); Venable's Gal., Wash., 1924 (two-person, with August Rolle); Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1928 (plus solo show the same year); Gr. Wash. Indep. Exh., 1935 (prize); Women's City Club, Wash., 1940 (solo); Wash. WCC; SSAL; Wash. Soc. SMPS&G, frequently from 1931; Wash. SE; Maryland Inst.; also in Florida, Tennessee, Indiana & Ontario

Asociaciones: Wash. Landscape Club (which evolved from the Ramblers Sketch Club); Soc. Wash. Artists; Wash. WCC; AAPL; SSAL; Balt. WCC; New Haven PCC; Wash. SE; Wash. SMPS&G (founder); Royal SPG&S, London, England; CAFA; Miss. AA

Obra: NMAA; Wash. County Mus. FA, Hagerstown, MD; Wash. DC Hist. Soc.; George Wash. Univ. Permanent Coll.n; Cosmos Club; NMAH; LOC; White House, Wash., DC; Bibliothèque Nat., Paris; NYPL; Univ. Georgia; Smithsonian Inst.; Mus. FA, Houston; Phila. Art All.; Wash. AC; Los Angeles Mus. Art

Comentarios: Well-known for his scenes of the countryside surrounding Wash., DC (oil and watercolors), as well as his animal-life pictures. Beginning in late 1914, he began sketching outdoors with members of an informal group of landscape artists called The Ramblers Sketch Club (at this early date the group consisted of Charles H. Seaton, Winfield Scott Clime, and Edwin G. Cassedy). During the 1930s-40s he contibuted over 3700 animal illustrations to the Evening's Star's syndicated series, Nature's Children;" he also illustrated nature books and did portraits of pets of leading Washingtonians. During the 1940s he did much restoration work (see Strass). Moore moved to Florida after his wife's death in the 1950s; there he continued to paint landscapes, even after his eyesight began to fail. Teaching: etching, Clara Hill School of Art, Wash., DC.

Fuentes: WW59; WW47; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.; Stephanie Strass, A Seasonal View: The Landscapes of Benson Bond Moore (Hagerstown, Md.: Wash. Cnty MFA, 1996)"