Award-winning illustrator barry Moser has illustrated or designed over 250 books, winning over 50 prestigious awards worldwide, including the National Book Award in 1983 for his edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In addition to being one of the top illustrators in America, he is also a printer, painter, printmaker, designer, author, essayist and teacher.
Moser will deliver a lecture and slide show on April 24 at 5:30 p.m. in the Georgia Museum of Art, and the following day there will be a reception in his honor at the Hargrett Rare Book Library. Many of Moser’s books will be on view.
These events are presented by the University Press, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Hargrett Rare Book Library and the Georgia Museum of Art. Moser’s visit to the university is sponsored in part with a generous grant from the UGA Parents and Families Fund.
Moser was born in Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1940, and educated at Auburn University, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He studied with George Cress, Leonard Baskin, Fred Becker and Jack Coughlin.
Moser’s monumental work on the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible has been the subject of scores of articles in print, television and radio as well as the subject of a documentary film called A Thief among the Angels. It was also featured in the only one-man exhibit by a living artist ever to be mounted at the library of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. |
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