Barry Moser

Barry Moser was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1940. He put himself through his last two years of college as a Methodist preacher, but his calling to the ministry didn’t last. He was accepted into the Theological Seminary at Vanderbilt, but he declined to attend. He moved to New England and devoted himself to teaching and to learning for himself the crafts of etching and wood engraving. He later studied printing and typography at the Gehenna Press under the tutelage of Harold McGrath and Leonard Baskin.

OUR WHITE HOUSE. Illustration © 2008 by Barry Moser. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.
OUR WHITE HOUSE. Illustration © 2008 by Barry Moser. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.

Since 1969, when he composed his first line of hand-set type, Moser has illustrated some of this century’s most beautiful private press books. World renowned for his children’s illustrations, wood engravings, watercolors, and reinterpretations of the classics, including the Pennyroyal Press editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found, Frankenstein, Huckleberry Finn, The Wizard of Oz, and the Pennyroyal Caxton Edition of The Holy Bible, Barry Moser’s art is represented in numerous library and museum collections. His work has been published in more than two hundred books for children and adults.

Barry Moser, who lives in western Massachusetts, is represented at R. Michelson Galleries, the premiere source of his wood engravings, watercolors, and fine art books since 1982.

Learn more at BarryMoser.com.

More Books by Barry Moser

We Were Brothers (Algonquin Books)

The Cheshire Cheese Cat, written by Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright (Peachtree )

Outside, written by Barry Lopez (Trinity University Press)