Tony Bernard Mosman (born Anton Bernard Mosman) (1886-1985) was an American artist from
Carroll, Iowa, United States. He produced landscape, still-life, and portrait paintings in oil, watercolor, pastel and acrylic. He was a published poet in the ''Atlantic Monthly''
[Times Herald (Carroll, Iowa), Tuesday, September 11, 1979, p. 5] and has also written a novel and a series of short stories.
Background
Mosman was born in 1886 in
Carroll, Iowa, to Antonius Albertus Mosman (1856-1928) and Helena “Lena” Pittmann (or Puttmann)(1863-1956).
[Kenneth Freeman Mosman, ed., Fifteenth Through Twentieth Century Mos(s)man Families of Great Britain With Descendant Migrations and Histories, ecorah, Iowa: Anundsen Publishing Company, 1997 p. 271-272.] He was one of eight children. He married Barbara Mary Wille (1886-1954) on June 3, 1913. He married a second time, on June 14, 1958, to Margaret Nees (1896-1989).
He served as a Private of the National Guard in Carroll for years. Mosman and Barbara had four children: Freda Barbara (Mosman) Stevens (1914-1993), Grace Josephine (Mosman) Darveaux (1920-1975), Louis Paul Mosman (1923-2017) and Harriet Mosman (1927-1928).
Mosman owned and operated the Carroll Paint Shop for thirty years,
but he considered that being an artist was his true profession. As a "widely recognized Western Iowa artist"
[Tony B. Mosman, Obituary, Times Herald (Carroll, Iowa), 19 August 1985, p. 2] he twice exhibited his paintings in
Omaha, Nebraska at the Jocelyn Memorial Art Museum. He also exhibited art at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, and at art centers of:
Sioux City, Iowa;
Des Moines, Iowa;
Denver, Iowa;
Ames, Iowa
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;
[Carroll Daily Times Herald (Carroll, Iowa), Tuesday, February 9, 1965, p. 1] and Fort Dodge, Iowa.
In 1938, after submitting works to a national contest judged by
Eleanor Roosevelt, he was asked to donate the paintings to a traveling exhibition that would go all over the country. He was appointed the Carroll committeeman for an art exhibit at Cornell College. In 1965, he exhibited 41 paintings in the Carroll County State Bank.
and in the Carroll Public Library in 1980. It was reported in 1965 that he had "over 1,000 paintings to his credit and some have brought as much as $150 at exhibitions."
He sold about 30 of his paintings in 1979 in Sarasota and Tampa, Florida; Tucson, Arizona; San Francisco, California; and New York, New York.
He died of a
stroke
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on August 16, 1985, at
Carroll, Iowa and is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery,
Carroll, Iowa.
[Tony Mosman, Obituary, Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, 18 Aug 1985.]
References
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People from Carroll, Iowa
1886 births
1985 deaths
Artists from Iowa
Painters from Iowa