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1934 - 2021 (86 years)
1898 - 1987 (89 years)
Birth |
14 May 1898 |
Chatham, Virginia |
Died |
3 Sep 1987 |
Danville, Virginia |
Buried |
Mountain View Cemetery Danville, Virginia |
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Father |
Alpheus Beale Moses, b. Est 1870, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Mother |
Elizabeth 'Bessie' Hodnett, b. Est 1870 |
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Family |
Thelma Elizabeth Carter, b. 13 Jun 1902, Danville, Virginia |
Married |
20 Apr 1926 |
Richmond, Virginia |
Children |
| 1. Infant daughter Moses, b. 2 Sep 1930, Danville, Virginia |
| 2. James Carter "Jimmy" Moses, b. 29 Feb 1932, Danville, Virginia |
| 3. Forrest Lee "Pete" Moses, b. 14 May 1934, Danville, Virginia |
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1902 - 1987 (84 years)
Birth |
13 Jun 1902 |
Danville, Virginia |
Died |
9 Jun 1987 |
Danville, Virginia |
Buried |
Mountain View Cemetery Danville, Virginia |
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Father |
Joseph Alpha dna Carter, b. 7 Dec 1874, Halifax County, Virginia |
Mother |
Madaline 'Mattie' Frances Edwards, b. 3 May 1876, Lunenburg County, Virginia |
Married |
13 Dec 1898 |
Petersburg, Virginia |
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Family |
Forrest Lee Moses, b. 14 May 1898, Chatham, Virginia |
Married |
20 Apr 1926 |
Richmond, Virginia |
Children |
| 1. Infant daughter Moses, b. 2 Sep 1930, Danville, Virginia |
| 2. James Carter "Jimmy" Moses, b. 29 Feb 1932, Danville, Virginia |
| 3. Forrest Lee "Pete" Moses, b. 14 May 1934, Danville, Virginia |
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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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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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Sources |
- [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
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