Ed Moses Art
American, 1926-2018
Ed Moses was a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene and key promoter of Post-War, West Coast art for almost 60 years. Best known for his eclectic range, his canvases are formal abstractions that use a variety of processes to experiment with surface—creating striations, cracks, marks and blurs at times juxtaposed with hard-edge geometric abstraction.
Following graduation, Moses moved to New York City where he became friends with Franz Kline, Milton Resnick, William de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, with whom he would exhibit in New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. In 1959, Moses married Avilda Peters and moved back to Los Angeles to start a family, travel, and continue his painting career. Always working with process and experimenting with materials as a painter, Moses was critically lauded for his bold composition and innovation. In 1968, he received a Tamarind Lithography Fellowship as well as the offer of a teaching position at the University of California, Los Angeles, his alma mater, where he would teach until 1972. After travels in Europe, he would return to UCLA to teach until 1976, the same year he was recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant and his first museum shows: a show of drawings from 1958-1970s at the Wight Gallery at UCLA, and a show of new abstract and cubist red paintings at LACMA curated by Stephanie Barron, the latter marking a transitional moment in his career. While drawing was prominent in his work in the 1960s and early 70s, by the mid-70s, Moses was turning increasingly to painting.
By 1990, Moses—a spiritual descendant of the Abstract Expressionists and a dedicated student of Buddhism—was living in Venice, California, meditating daily and blazing his own trail to aesthetic truth. Working with unconventional materials and tools, including mops, hoses, and rubber scrapers, he painted behind his house in Venice, where he lived for more than 30 years. Here, influenced by the tenants of Buddhism, he was working in the moment, embracing and responding to elements of chance and circumstance. Endlessly intrigued with the metaphysical power of painting, he created works that embraced temporality, process, and presence, remarking that “the point is not to be in control, but to be in tune.”
Moses’ works are held in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Gallery, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Berkeley Art Museum at UC Berkeley; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Dallas Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cincinnati Museum of Art; Butler Art Institute of American Art, Ohio; Dallas Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art; Musee National d’art moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR; and many others.(Biography provided by Bentley Gallery)
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Artist: Ed Moses
Cat Who A-1
By Ed Moses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Ed Moses has been a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene for almost six decades. Born in 1926 in Long Beach, CA, Moses studied art at UCLA, and trained under the expressionist painter, Rico Lebrun.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ed Moses Art
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Early 2000s Abstract Ed Moses Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Redyps
By Ed Moses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
(April 9, 1926 – January 17, 2018) was an American artist based in Los Angeles and a central figure of postwar West Coast art.
Moses first exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in 1957 and...
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Early 2000s Abstract Ed Moses Art
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Cohabit
By Ed Moses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
(April 9, 1926 – January 17, 2018) was an American artist based in Los Angeles and a central figure of postwar West Coast art.
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Early 2000s Abstract Ed Moses Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Wack #2
By Ed Moses
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(April 9, 1926 – January 17, 2018) was an American artist based in Los Angeles and a central figure of postwar West Coast art.
Moses first exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in 1957 and...
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2010s Abstract Ed Moses Art
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6 Kackle
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Ed Moses was a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene and key promoter of Post-War, West Coast art for almost 60 years. Best known for his eclectic range, his canvases are for...
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By Ed Moses
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"Tibbar"- A dramatic, large abstract, acrylic-on-canvas painting by important, Los Angeles artist, Ed Moses (1926-2018) whose distinguished career earned him solo exhibitions at LACM...
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Untitled (from the Kracked Portfolio)
By Ed Moses
Located in Austin, TX
Soft ground etching, white ground and sugar lift aquatint in colors
Trial Proof (Outside the edition of 15)
Published by Jacob Samuel, Santa Monica
Signed, dated, and numbered in lo...
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20th Century Ed Moses Art
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Etching, Aquatint
Untitled
By Ed Moses
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Ed Moses has been a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene for almost six decades.
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ed Moses Art
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Lithograph
Shago series abstract
By Ed Moses
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Ed Moses has been a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene for almost six decades.
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ed Moses Art
Materials
Lithograph
Shago series
By Ed Moses
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Ed Moses has been a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene for almost six decades.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ed Moses Art
Materials
Lithograph
Trac
By Ed Moses
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Ed Moses has been a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene for almost six decades.
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20th Century Abstract Ed Moses Art
Materials
Lithograph
Franco-Del #1 & #3
By Ed Moses
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic on canvas by Ed Moses. "Franco-Del #1 & #3" is a triptych executed in earth tones of browns, grey, black, rust and pine green by Post War artist Ed Moses...
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Early 2000s Post-War Ed Moses Art
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Nambo Panel I & II
By Ed Moses
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic on canvas by Ed Moses. "Nambo Panel I & II" is a diptych executed in whites, creams, dark green and depicting geometric shapes with various dots, circles and corkscrews against a dark background by Post War artist Ed Moses...
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Wack #1
By Ed Moses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Ed Moses, Wack #1, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 72" x 60", $60,000
Currently on display in William Turner Gallery's exhibit, Through the Looking Glass, which presents an overview of the...
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2010s Abstract Ed Moses Art
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Many Feet
By Ed Moses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Ed Moses has been a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene for almost six decades. Born in 1926 in Long Beach, CA, Moses studied art at UCLA, and trained under the expressionist painter, Rico Lebrun.
He first exhibited work in 1949, and was part of the original group of artists from the legendary Ferus Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Ed Moses Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cohabit
By Ed Moses
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Ed Moses has been a prominent figure in the Los Angeles art scene for almost six decades. Born in 1926 in Long Beach, CA, Moses studied art at UCLA, and trained under the expressionist painter, Rico Lebrun.
He first exhibited work in 1949, and was part of the original group of artists from the legendary Ferus Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ed Moses Art
Materials
Acrylic
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