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Francis Luis Mora Art

American, 1874-1940
Francis Luis Mora was one of the great American artists of late 19th and early 20th centuries. His illustrations were found in numerous magazines and periodicals including Harper's Weekly, Scribner's, and Century Magazine. In 1903, alongside Robert Henri, Mora taught a class at Bayport on the South Shore of New York's Long Island and another class at Good Ground in 1904, both identified as continuations of Chase's Shinnecock School. Mora also taught and exhibited extensively at the Art Students League of New York. Born in Uruguay in 1874, his family moved to America when he was a child. His father, Domingo Mora, was a well-known Spanish artist who gave his son his early artistic training. Mora also attended the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School where he studied drawing and painting under Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell. Later he studied under H. Siddens Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York City. Following the tradition of his contemporaries and mentors, Mora traveled to Europe to study the great paintings of the Old Masters. The influence of the Spanish Masters, especially Velazquez, is evident in Mora's choice of subject matter and style throughout his career. "Perhaps it is these very conflicting conditions in the life of Mr. Luis Mora that have evolved the unusual quality of his art, an art essentially Spanish in subject and feeling and wholly modern and American in expression…(Craftsm, 17:402)." Over two hundred of Mora's sketchbooks are conserved at the Archives of American Art. Mora was also commissioned to paint the portraits of Andrew Carnegie and President Warren G. Harding, both of which hang in the White House.
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Artist: Francis Luis Mora
The Opal Pool - Coast of Catalina, Spain
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in New York, NY
A very rare and exceptional work by one of America's most versatile and interesting American Impressionists. This was done on an early trip the artist made to Spain. The artist live...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Francis Luis Mora Art

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Oil, Board

Flamenco Dancer, Sevilla, Spain
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in New York, NY
Francis Mora is often considered to be the American artist who most depicted Hispanic culture in American and abroad. He made a trip to Spain in the early 1900's and created mostly ...
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Early 1900s Ashcan School Francis Luis Mora Art

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Oil, Board

Playa con Llüats, Beach and Boats
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in New York, NY
A very dear and special work by Francis Luis Mora done while he was in Spain. An important trip early in his career, this is a gem of American Impressionism in technique and history...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Francis Luis Mora Art

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Oil, Board

Self Portrait, of the Gentleman himself
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in New York, NY
A simply marvelous drawing - a self-portrait of the artist himself. It also reads as a very elegant and expressive line drawing of any gentleman - a hallmark depiction of a bon-vi...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Francis Luis Mora Art

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Archival Paper, Graphite

Hispanic Artist - Spanish Culture - Spanish Souvenir mantilla, peineta, gilet
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in Miami, FL
F. Luis Mora was the first Hispanic member of the National Academy of Design. Spanish Souvenir- mantilla, peineta, by Francis Luis Mora is a painting of beautiful Spanish women in...
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1920s Impressionist Francis Luis Mora Art

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Canvas, Oil

Mother and Child - Classic Portrait
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in Miami, FL
This warm portrait looks like it could have been painted by Corot. Francis Luis Mora paints in that tradition. It's a small painting that invites the viewer to look closer. The art...
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1920s Academic Francis Luis Mora Art

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Oil, Board

Spanish Souvenir- mantilla, peineta, gilet
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in Miami, FL
Spanish Souvenir- mantilla, peineta, by Francis Luis Mora is a painting of beautiful Spanish women in traditional dress with their entourage. It's is a museum-quality work. In fact, ...
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1920s Impressionist Francis Luis Mora Art

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Canvas, Oil

Blond Girl with Basket of Flowers "Rosemary's Playmate"
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in Miami, FL
This is an almost lifesize portrait of a charming blond holding a basket of freshly picked flowers. The girl set against a verdant landscape with blue sky and cumulus clouds. The subject is the friend of the artist's daughter. 78 x 42in. framed. This joyful image of youth looks better in person due to its impressive size and clearly will be a statement piece in any home. Francis Luis Mora ( ( Uruguayan / American, 1874-1940) Studied under Edmund Charles Tarbell...
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1910s Academic Francis Luis Mora Art

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Canvas, Oil

Battle Scene, Spanish American War
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in New York, NY
Francis Luis Mora was considered one of America's finest "sketchers". A collection of his Sketchbooks are at the Smithsonian and this work came out of one in the early 1990's from t...
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1890s Ashcan School Francis Luis Mora Art

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Graphite

George Washington Hand Studies, Mount Vernon
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in New York, NY
This stunning study of George Washington's hands is a unique and remarkable drawing pair. Mora was noted as an exceptional draftsman and actually traveled america giving lectures ab...
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1910s American Realist Francis Luis Mora Art

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Paper, Charcoal

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Forest Idyll Allegory drawing
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in New York, NY
Francis Luis Mora is loved sketching and drawing and did so for almost every day of his career. This allegorical and very finished pencil drawing depicts a Faun in the forest. Poss...
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"Wedding Day, 1917, " F Luis Mora, watercolor, gouache, American Impressionist
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F Luis Mora was a painter and muralist. A native of Uruguay, Mora came to the United States as a child and studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts...
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Sketch For Boy with Pup, Vintage American Drawing of the Ash Can School
By Francis Luis Mora
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Mora sketched every day and he had what were called his sketch books from which this work was taken. This is a marvelous drawing and a quintessential example of the expressive and remarkable quality a sketch can take on. His use of fluid and continuous line bring the boy to life and perhaps conveys the excitement, youth and gesture of a boy holding a pup even more than a finished work could do. Mora was sometimes affiliated with the Ash Can...
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Francis Luis Mora "Woman with Guitar" Original Watercolor Painting c.1920
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Francis Luis Mora Original Watercolor Painting c.1920 Woman with a guitar Dimensions 8" wide x 13.5" high The frame measures 13.75" wide x 20" high Signed by the artist Good vintage / antique condition F. (Francis) Luis Mora was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on July 27, 1874. His father, Domingo Mora (1840- 1911), was a Spanish architectural sculptor. His mother, Laura Gaillard, had two sisters who married into the extended Bacardi rum family of Santiago de Cuba, and Luis Mora was their nephew. His brother was Joseph Jacinto Jo Mora (1876-1947), who would become a noted California artist. In 1880, Domingo Mora accepted a position as Director of Design for the Perth Amboy...
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Charming rendition and a beautiful girl sewing. Post-impressionist Brush strokes
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Portrait of a Spanish Woman by Francis Mora
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Impressionist portrait of a Spanish woman by Francis Mora (1874 - 1940). Oil on canvas, lain to board, circa 1900. Signed in monogram lower right. Displayed in a silverleaf frame...
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Portrait of Domingo Mora
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Stamped verso with wax seal and Certification of Authenticity, and painted circa 1935. This compelling portrait of the artist's father, Domingo, shows the profound influence of Vel...
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