About Forrest Lee Moses

  • Biography

    A passion for traveling and shooting landscape photography fuels the paintings and monotypes by Santa Fe-based artist Forrest Moses. Born 1934 in Virginia, he earned his BFA from Washington and Lee University in 1956 and served as a naval officer in the Philippines, Japan, and other Far East destinations, which had a strong visual and philosophical influence on him.

    He discovered art and architecture the year he spent in Europe and formalized his education in graduate school at Pratt Institute in New York. Moses designed interiors, furniture, and ceramics in Houston before turning to full-time painting. In 1965 he moved to the Monterey Peninsula in California, an area rich with rollicking hills, crashin...

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