Forrest Lee "Pete" Moses

1934 - 2021  (86 years)

• Name	Forrest Lee "Pete" Moses
  Born	14 May 1934	Danville, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Jan 2021	Palm Springs, California   [1]
  Person ID	I7224	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Edward Powell, Descendants of Giles Carter of Henrico
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Forrest Lee Moses,   b. 14 May 1898, Chatham, Virginia ,   d. 3 Sep 1987, Danville, Virginia  (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Thelma Elizabeth Carter,   b. 13 Jun 1902, Danville, Virginia ,   d. 9 Jun 1987, Danville, Virginia  (Age 84 years)
  Married	20 Apr 1926	Richmond, Virginia
  Family ID	F2540	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Photo Forrest Lee Moses, Jr. Joseph Welch Reynolds 1st Cousins Forrest Lee Moses, Jr. Joseph Welch Reynolds 1st Cousins
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• Notes

  Forrest Moses is a 20th century impressionist painter. He has lived in Santa Fe, NM for many years. He is my first cousin, and was born on the same day (just 4 hours apart) as my brother Joseph Welch Reynolds. (14 May 1934) Forrest Moses (Pete) was never married and had no issue

  
  

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  [S42] Obituary, https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santafenewmexican/obituary.aspx?n=forrest-moses&pid=197587498. FORREST MOSES LewAllen Galleries is deeply saddened by the passing of Forrest Moses, one of America's most celebrated painters of abstracted landscape and, for more than 25 years, a leading figure among our represented artists. Moses passed away peacefully on January 22 in Palm Springs, California. He was 86. Moses will be remembered as a visionary artist whose continuous zeal to express the ineffable resulted in masterful paintings and monotypes that uniquely abstracted the pulses, vibrations, lines, and colors of nature's beauty. He possessed a remarkable ability to express in his work the emotional experience of being in a place rather than its mere visual image. His work is known for its quiet meditative quality, intimating at the forms of landscape rather than replicating them. Born in 1934 in Danville, Virginia, Forrest Moses earned a BFA from Washington and Lee University. He was drafted into the Navy, becoming an air intelligence officer in Southeast Asia. This allowed him the opportunity to experience and learn about the artistic and cultural traditions of Japan that were to play important roles in the development of his widely-admired aesthetic and art making. After completing his service with the Navy, Moses studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, then moving to Texas where he began a career making fine art that would span more than five decades. He settled in Santa Fe in 1969 and became a much-admired figure in the art world. His paintings and works on paper are included in the permanent holdings of museums and important private collections, and leave an indelible mark of excellence in the art world and an enduring legacy of joy for his many collectors. Moses' art has been described as "quiescently tranquil adduced from his solitary moments of profound experience in nature, his heart leading his mind in a vision that unfolds without intention," the result of which is the unique mastery in his work of the sublimity of nature. Throughout his career, Moses' paintings and works on paper evoked a vision that strove beyond the literal, often inclining towards abstracted orchestrations of elegant color and line. As Pasatiempo art critic Michael Abatemarco wrote in 2019, "Essentially, [Moses'] paintings and monotypes are imagined landscapes not tied to any specific location. They are about mood and tone. But they conjure a feeling of place, often with a lightness of being." Profoundly influenced by Japanese aesthetics, Moses embraced in his work the principles of wabi-sabi ? the idea that beauty can lie in imperfection and transience. For Moses, painting was an act of reverence for the beauty inherent in the natural world, where the aesthetic of decay is as important as that of growth, and where he sought to convey its sense of the sacred and the sublime. Plans for a memorial exhibition of Moses' work will be announced at a future time. For a monograph on his work in 2004, Moses wrote, "Life has many transitions and transformations, perhaps like the development of the blooming rose or the emergence of the butterfly ? a new journey begins." May this new journey now be a good one, Forrest! Larry Brown Robert Gardner Kenneth Marvel And the entire Staff of LewAllen Galleries Forrest Moses, a Danville Son and Renowned Artist Lew Allen Galleries announced the passing of Forrest Moses, one of America's most celebrated painters of abstracted landscape and, for more than 25 years, a leading figure among our represented artists. Moses passed away peacefully earlier this year in Palm Springs, California. He was 86. Born in 1934 in Danville, Virginia, Forrest Moses earned a BFA from Washington and Lee University. He was drafted into the Navy, becoming an air intelligence officer in Southeast Asia. This allowed him the opportunity to experience and learn about the artistic and cultural traditions of Japan that were to play important roles in the development of his widely-admired aesthetic and art-making. After completing his service with the Navy, Moses studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, then moving to Texas, where he began a career making fine art that would span more than five decades. He settled in Santa Fe in 1969, and became a much-admired figure in the art world. His paintings and works on paper are included in the permanent holdings of museums and important private collections, and leave an indelible mark of excellence in the art world and an enduring legacy of joy for his many collectors. (Source: Staff of LewAllen Galleries) https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santafenewmexican/obituary.aspx?n=forrest-moses&pid=197587498