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“John Moore is one of America’s best painters. His outstanding
recent accomplishments are paintings of city and suburban views. In
these pictures, Moore infuses ordinary city and residential suburban scenes
with an air of mystery and monumentality. He uses enormous quantities
of minute detail, which he keeps under confident control, to make his
paintings convincingly real. But what is so startling about Moore’s
paintings is not so much their intense reality, but their expansiveness.
We feel enlarged by the experience of looking at Moore’s landscape."
Victoria Donohoe, The Philadelphia Inquirer. John Moore received a B.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.F.A. from Yale. He has taught at the Tyler School of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, University of California Berkeley, and Boston University. He is chairman of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Moore is represented by Hirschl and Adler Modern in New York City where he shows regularly. In addition, he has also been exhibited at and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museums of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Yale University, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rhode Island School of Design, the San Franciso Museum of Modern Art. He has also exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where he was the recipient of an Academy Award and 2 Childe Hassam Awards. He is also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Foundation for the Humanities. His work has been reviewed and discussed frequently in the New York Times, Art in America, Art News, Art Forum, the Village Voice, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Art International, and is the subject of a book, Inventing Reality: The Paintings of John Moore, by Theresa Dolan. John Moore’s lecture is sponsored by the Weir Farm Trust.
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