Barry Moser (born 1940) is an American artist and educator, known as a

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...

specializing in wood engravings, and an illustrator of numerous works of literature. He is also the owner and operator of the Pennyroyal Press, an engraving and small book publisher founded in 1970.

Early life and education

Moser was born in 1940 in

Chattanooga, Tennessee Chattanooga ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. Located along the Tennessee River bordering Georgia, it also extends into Marion County on its western end. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, ...

. Moser studied at the

Baylor School Baylor School, commonly called Baylor, is a private, coeducational college-preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Founded in 1893, the school currently sits atop a 690-acre campus and enrolls students in grades 6-12, including boarding stu ...

Auburn University Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama. With more than 24,600 undergraduate students and a total enrollment of more than 30,000 with 1,330 faculty members, Auburn is the second largest uni ...

, and the

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UT-Chattanooga, UTC, or Chattanooga) is a public university in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in 1886 and is one of four universities and two other affiliated institutions in the ...

, and did graduate work at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

. He studied printmaking with

Leonard Baskin Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist, as well as founder of the Gehenna Press (1942–2000). One of America's first fine arts presses, it went on to become "one of the most imp ...

Career

Moser is known for his illustrations for

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's ''

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a ...

'' and ''

Through the Looking-Glass ''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'' (also known as ''Alice Through the Looking-Glass'' or simply ''Through the Looking-Glass'') is a novel published on 27 December 1871 (though indicated as 1872) by Lewis Carroll and the ...

'', each of which consisted of more than a hundred prints, and the former of which won him the

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for design and illustration in 1983. He has illustrated nearly 300 other works as well, including portions of the

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book series ''

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'', '' A River Runs Through It'', and ''

Moby-Dick ''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'' is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael (Moby-Dick), Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab, Ahab, captain of the whaler, whaling ship ''Pequod (Moby- ...

''. He published his own illustrated Bible edition, and he illustrated the

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translation of

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's ''Inferno'', published in 1980 as ''Inferno: First Book of the Divine Comedy''. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Illustration Studies at the

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

, for many years he was on the faculty of the

Williston Northampton School Williston Northampton School (simply referred to as Williston) is a private, co-educational, day and boarding college-preparatory school in Easthampton, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1841. History Williston Seminary wa ...

and has been a Professor in Residence and Printer to the College at

Smith College Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College ...

. Barry Moser also teaches Life Drawing at the Glen East Workshop, held in summers at

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. His works have been displayed in such places as the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

, the

Metropolitan Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, and the

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. In 2007 the Smithsonian Art Collectors Program commissioned Moser to create a print for their Small Treasures series, the sales of which benefit educational and cultural programs through the Smithsonian Associates. The resulting relief engraving, ''An Old Chestnut'' is on display in the S. Dillon Ripley Center in the

National Mall The National Mall is a Landscape architecture, landscaped park near the Downtown, Washington, D.C., downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. It contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institut ...

Bibliography

Art books

Children's books

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'' (1991) * '' Polly Vaughn: A Traditional British Ballad'' (1992) * '' Speak!: Children's Book Illustrators Brag about their Dogs'' (1993) * '' The Farm Summer 1942'' (1994) * '' I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat'' (1994) * * ''The Pageant'' (1995) * '' Our New Puppy'' (1996) * * *'' A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa'' (1997) * ''Dippers'' (1997) * '' Great Ghost Stories'' (1998) * '' Dogs of Myth: Tales from Around the World'' (1999) * '' Earthquack!'' (2002) * '' That Summer'' (2002) * '' Voices of Ancient Egypt'' (2003) * '' Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems'' (2004) * '' Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale'' (2004) * '' The Three Silly Billies'' (2005) * ''

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'' (2006) * '' Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature'' (2007) * '' Jack London's Dog'' (2008) * '' Hogwood Steps Out: A Good, Good Pig Story'' (2008) * '' Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes'' (2009) * '' The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale'' (2011) * '' Oh, Harry!'' (2011) * '' Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World'' (2011) * ''Cat Talk'' (2013) * '' We Were Brothers'' (2015)

Novels, fairy tales

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Frankenstein ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. ''Frankenstein'' tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific ex ...

'' (1984) * ''

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the nov ...

'' (1989) * '' A River Runs Through It'' (1989) * ''

Beauty and the Beast ''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' ( ...

'' (1992) * ''

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' is a collection of twelve short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, w ...

'' (1992) * '' First Love: A Gothic Tale'' (1996)

References

External links

Barry Moser and his own Pennyroyal PressBarry Moser etchings, engravings, and papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaThe Papers of Barry Moser
at Dartmouth College Library
Pennyroyal Press records
at the

Mortimer Rare Book Collection The Mortimer Rare Book Collection (MRBC) is the rare books collection of Smith College. Along with the Sophia Smith Collection and Smith College Archives, it makes up Smith College Special Collections. The collection supports both general researc ...

, Smith College Special Collections * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moser, Barry American illustrators American printmakers Rhode Island School of Design faculty Auburn University alumni University of Tennessee at Chattanooga alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni 1940 births Living people Smith College faculty American wood engravers