Forrest Moses: Field of Beauty Digital Catalog

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The Iris Monotypes

Forrest Moses Field of Beauty APRIL 26 - MAY 25 | 2024

Forrest Moses (1934 - 2021) is lauded as the pinnacle of painting abstracted forms in of nature and its essence with unmatched finesse. Moses provides viewers a glimpse into the profound beauty of this magnificent flower by way of his interpretation of its elegance and striking symmetry. “I adore the iris flower, its sophistication and natural beauty. I seek to discover nature’s truth and give life to a painted image by understanding the rhythms and pulses behind appearances.”

As with his renowned oil paintings on canvas, the monotypes of Forrest Moses are each an original work of art that bears complete fidelity to the visual engagement of the artist with nature. Moses made his monotypes by painting with pigments onto a Plexiglas plate and then impressing that painting onto a chine colle of rice paper melded with thick Arches paper through the pressure of a large etching press.

Moses approached his materials with the concept of what he called “an open heart.”

Inspired by Eastern Philosophy, creating paintings and monotypes emulating the discipline of the craftsman of Japanese aesthetics: mindless of the process but mindful of the moment. His seemingly effortless works come from a place of surrender, conceding his own individual consciousness to nature’s currents resulting in a striking balance between abstraction and the recognizable. The process of surrender is echoed in Moses’s adept use of the monotype medium allowing for experimentation and refinement of his vision.

Moses referred to these works as “stamps, thumbprints” of the spiritual consciousness of his life as an artist. Like his oils, the monotypes are what he thought of as byproducts of his meditations on nature and its patterns and textures, and his own feelings of being there. The marks, lines and colors of his art transfer the essence of that experience and convey the meanings of it. In this process, for Moses, beauty becomes truth.

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1613 Paseo de Peralta I Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 I 505.988.3250 I lewallengalleries.com I contact@lewallengalleries.com Cover: F 02/10, 2002, Monotype, 10 x 9.75 in.

Field of Irises, 1994 Monotype 22.5 x 33.75 in.

Purple Iris, 1993 Monotype 34.75 x 15.75 in.

Blue and Magenta Iris, 1992 Monotype 34 x 16.5 in.

F 91/75, 1991 Monotype 35 x 15.5 in.

F 99/37, 1999 Monotype 19 x 11.5 in.

Iris ll, 1991 Monotype 23.25 x 8.75 in.

F 02/02, 2002 Monotype 33.5 x 21.25 in.

F 02/10, 2002 Monotype 10 x 9.75 in.

F 97/25, 1997 Monotype 34.25 x 21.5 in.

F 99/21, 1999 Monotype 21.5 x 14.5 in.

F 93/18, 1993 Monotype 23.75 x 11.5 in.

F 92/68, 1992 Monotype 22.75 x 34.25 in.

F 02/08, 2002 Monotype 23.5 x 14 in.

Iris I, 1991 Monotype 30 x 22 in.

F 96/28, 1996 Monotype 29.75 x 10.5 in.

Iris, 1993 Monotype 29.75 x 10.5 in.

Field of Beauty, 1994 Monotype 22.75 x 34 in.

Monarch in Purple, 1999 Monotype 21.5 x 13.75 in.

M 2011, 2011 Monotype 33.5 x 21 in.

M 08/17, 2008 Monotype 33.25 x 21 in.

M 13/21, 2013 Monotype 16.75 x 33.25 in.

L 04/39, 2004 Monotype 21.25 x 33 in.

M 06/06, 2006 Monotype 14.5 x 14.5 in.

L 10/12, 2010 Monotype 15.75 x 15.5 in.

L 05/54, 2005 Monotype 15.5 x 11.25 in.

Untitled, 1981 Monotype 11.88 x 8.75 in.

CV: Education 1956 1960-62

BFA, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA Studied at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2019 2016 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1994 1993 1991 1989 1987 1986

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LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, New York, NY LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Edenhurst Gallery, Palm Desert, CA Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Peregrine Press, Dallas, TX Sheldon Memorial Museum Gallery, Lincoln, NE Watson Gallery, Houston, TX Watson/de Nagy Gallery, Houston, TX Egrets Gallery, Pasadena, CA St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM Watson/de Nagy Gallery, Houston, TX Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY Carson-Sapiro Gallery, Denver, CO Eason Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Wildline Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC

1980 Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, TX The Art Center, Waco, TX 1979 Hills’ Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Illinois State University, Normal, IL Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 1978 Museum of Fine Arts, Danville, VA Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, TX 1977 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1976 Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX 1975 Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1974 Smither Gallery, Dallas, TX Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, TX 1973 Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1972 Wichita Falls Museum & Art Center, TX 1971 Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1969 David Gallery, Houston, TX 1968 Stratford College, Danville, VA 1967 David Gallery, Houston, TX 1966 David Gallery, Houston, TX 1965 David Gallery, Houston, TX 1961 Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA

Selected Group Exhibitions 2018 2015 2013 2007 2006 2001 1996 1995 1994 1992 1991

1987 1985 1984

LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM Los Angeles Art Show (exhibited by LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM) at Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA Painting – Alive and Well! Eight Master Artists, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Diptychs, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA Lizardi-Harp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO Art Thomas Gallery, Charleston, SC Traveling Exhibition, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan Damian Art, Sapporo, Japan Damian Art, Tokyo, Japan World Collection, Yokohama, Japan Galerie Miyabe, Okinawa, Japan Galerie Miyabe, Fukuoka, Japan Crane Art, Nagoya, Japan Crane Art, Ikebukuro, Japan Crane Art, Tokyo, Japan Art Dumonde, Tokyo, Japan Paper Works II, McNay Art Museum, Austin, TX, Contemporary American Monotypes, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, Egypt, Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Contemporary Western Landscape, Museum of Art of the American West, Houston, TX

1983 American Artists as Printmakers, 23rd National Print Exhibit, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Print Invitational, Connecticut College, New London, CT Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX Sioux City Arts Center, Sioux City, IA Salina Arts Center, Salina, KS Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, WY Spiva Art Center, Joplin, MO 1982 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE 1981 San Antonio Museum of Art, TX University of Houston, TX 1980 Monotypes, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY New York Realists ’80, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkhill, NY 1979 Art of Paper ’79, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC 1978 The Landscape: Different Points of View, Wave Hill, New York, NY 1976 Arco Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM 1975 Contemporary Landscape Painting, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK 1974 Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX Twelve from New Mexico (traveling exhibition) Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX; Tyler Museum, Tyler, TX Wichita Falls Museum & Art Center, Wichita Falls, TX 1972 Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM 1966 Monterey Peninsula Museum, CA 1964 Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 1961 Pratt Institute, New York, NY

Selected Collections

Amerada Hess Corporation, New York, NY American Telephone & Telegraph, New York, NY Ana Hotel, Tokyo, Japan Beatrice Foods, Chicago, IL Chicopee Manufacturing Company, Nautcenswick, NJ Citibank, New York, NY Deloitte Touche, Washington, DC CRS Design Associates, Houston, TX Dallas Arboretum, Dallas, TX Diamond Shamrock Corporation, Dallas, TX First National Bank of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ General Electric, Fairfield, CT W.R. Grace & Company, Dallas, TX Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC Gulf Oil Company, Houston, TX Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL Houstonian Hotel, Houston, TX Hughes Aircraft, GA Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX IBM, Tucson, AZ Illinois State University, Normal, IL InterFirst Bank, Dallas, TX

Jundt Art Museum, Spokane, WA Kaiser-Permanente, Denver, CO Keisey Seybold Clinic, Houston, TX Kimberly Clark, Dallas, TX La Paloma Hotel, Tucson, AZ Little Neil, Aspen, CO LTV Corporation, Dallas, TX Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, PA Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC Mobil Oil Company, Dallas, TX Mountain Bell, Denver, CO Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM Oppenheimer Management, New York, NY Owens Corning Fiberglass, Toledo, OH Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY Phillips Petroleum, Denver, CO The Phoenician Hotel, Phoenix, AZ Princeton University Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ RCA, New York, NY Rainer Bank, Seattle, WA Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, NM Simpson Timber Company, Seattle, WA Spanish Bay Resort, Pebble Beach, CA Sunwest Bank, Albuquerque, NM Tesoro Petroleum, San Antonio, TX Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX Tobin Group, San Antonio, TX Touche-Ross, San Francisco, CA United Airlines, Denver, CO US Tobacco Company, Greenwich, CT Westin Hotel, Dallas, TX Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY Wilson Industries, Houston, TX

Back Cover: Forrest Moses, F 99/37, 1999, Monotype, 19 x 11.5 in.

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