Attributed to Ed Moses, it does not have a COA. Medium: acrylic canvas. 47 x 37 inches. Provenance: private owner. The frame is golden, and on the pictures you see the reflection of the camera, good condition.
Biography: 1926 - 2018. Ed Moses was born in Long Beach, California in 1926, the son of a Portuguese mother who resided with her Scottish and English husband in Hawaii. The couple separated when she was pregnant with Ed, and she came to Southern California. His schooling was erratic: he was home from school recovering from tuberculosis when he was eight and nine years old. He dropped out of high school after a year and a half and joined the Navy.Moses took his first art class at Long Beach with Pedro Miller, then transferred to University of California at Los Angeles in 1949. Quitting school several times and working various odd jobs, he finally graduated in 1956 and received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1958. He became a technical illustrator in an aircraft factory. He also did a series of coastal architectural drawings and his affinity for grids became obvious. He later got into more sensual subject matter and in the 1970s worked in translucent resins. Characteristic of his technique is that he seldom uses a brush, but instead works by staining, knifing, splashing and mopping and achieves his lines by using tap and snap lines.In the 1980s, he did a series of large wooden panel paintings with abstract architectural design and in the 1990s his work became more expressive. More recently he has painted in an Abstract Expressionist style reminiscent of Arshile Gorky's work.

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