Walter Farrington Moses (1874-1947) was an American Landscape painter.
After studying at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and ...
, he founded the Art Craft Club of Chicago in 1916 and was art director of Vogue Studios. He was an instructor at the Fashion School of Illustrating in Chicago. He was the author-illustrator o
Artistic Anatomyand managing director of the
California Art Club
The California Art Club (CAC) is one of the oldest and most active arts organizations in California. Founded in December 1909, it celebrated its centennial in 2009 and into the spring of 2010. The California Art Club originally evolved out of The ...
in 1922.
A prolific plein air painter, his works are infused with light and air and captured the unspoiled beauty of Southern California of the 1920s and 1930s.
He settled in Los Angeles in 1922 and founded the Art Guild Academy in 1930 where he taught for many years. He lived in Eagle Rock, California until his death on October 25, 1947.
Moses signed his paintings using various variations of his name, including Walter Farrington Moses
, Walter Farrington, W. Farrington, Farrington, Moses, Farrington Moses, W.F. Moses and Walton.
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1874 births
1947 deaths
American landscape painters
20th-century American painters
American male painters
People from Sterling, Illinois
20th-century American male artists
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