Reflected in the art of Scott Moore are his interests in history and the landscape, as well as his lifelong devotion to painting. Scott Moore grew up outside of Washington, D.C. His mother was a fashion illustrator and his father was an exhibit designer. Moore grew up drawing, and knew from an early age that he wanted to be a painter. The family moved to the coast of Maine in the 1960s. He attended the Maine College of Art ( then the Portland School of Art).

In art school much of Moore's painting instruction was in abstract expressionism. But Moore's love of history and landscape led him to study French impressionism, French academic painters of the nineteenth century and American masters, especially Edward Hopper. After c...