Barry Moser:
Barry Moser studied in Alabama and Tennessee and later at the University of Massachusetts. A member of the National Academy of Design, his work is in numerous collections, including The National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum and The British Museum. He taught at Rhode Island School of Design for ten years; was the 1995 Oates Fellow in Humanities at Princeton; and was a distinguished scholar at the University of Louisville in 2001. He is currently the Irwin and Pauline Alper Glass Professor of Art at Smith College.
Barry is an illustrator and typographer specializing in etching and wood engraving, responsible for some of the century’s most beautiful and beloved private-press books. His art appears in more than 250 books for children and adults, among them the Pennyroyal Press editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,(winner of the 1983 National Book Award) Through the Looking Glass, Frankenstein, Huckleberry Finn, The Wizard of Oz, Moby Dick, and the Pennyroyal Caxton Edition of The Holy Bible. Aside from his significant published body of work, Moser’s art is also represented in numerous library and museum collections.