Ben Frank Moss

born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1936

BiographyBen Frank Moss received his BA from Whitworth College in Spokane, WA, was briefly a graduate student at Princeton Theological Seminary and in 1963 received his MFA from Boston University with high honors.

Director of the MFA and Visiting Critics program at Fort Wright College in Spokane, WA. Before leaving the Northwest for Iowa he founded and was the acting Dean of the Spokane Studio School

Taught at University of Iowa, Iowa City for thirteen years

Served as chairman of the Studio Art Department at Dartmouth College from 1988 to 1994, and from 1993 as the George Frederick Jewett Professor of Studio Art.

Moss has had over 57 solo exhibitions and has been included in over 359 group shows throughout the country. He has been awarded artist residences at Yaddo, MacDowell, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Millay Colony, The Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland and the Pouch Cove Foundation in St. John's Newfoundland. He's been the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award form Boston University and a Ford Foundation Research and Travel Grand and an honorary MA from Dartmouth.

Whereas Moss’s early works centered on the figure and still life, in more recent decades he has focused almost entirely on landscape. His compositions are often inspired by the deep space of the Pacific Northwest, where he spends summers.

[source: www.bigtowngallery.com and hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu]

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