Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967) was a painter and the first director of the

Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single col ...

. He was born November 24, 1877 in

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, and studied at the Liverpool Art School and the Royal Institute. He immigrated to the United States and took additional painting lessons from

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. In 1910, he moved from New York City to Hawaii, where he worked as a purchasing agent for Hawaii Plantations. He became the first director of the

in 1924, but resigned in 1927, shortly before the museum opened. In 1928, he left Hawaii for California, where he painted 41 murals collectively known as the ''Picture Bridge'' for the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena and many easel paintings of California landscapes. Moore died in

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on March 5, 1967. The

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and the

are among the public collections holding paintings by Frank Montague Moore.Frank Moore in AskArt.com
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References

* Hughes, Edan, ''Artists in California 1786-1940'', Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 2002. * Papanikolas, Theresa and DeSoto Brown, ''Art Deco Hawai'i'', Honolulu, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2014, , p. 94 * Severson, Don R. ''Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections'', University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p. 114-5.

External links

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog

Frank Moore in AskArt.com

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Frank M 1877 births 1967 deaths Artists from Hawaii 19th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists American male painters 20th-century American painters Painters from California 20th-century American male artists British emigrants to the United States