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Barry Moser was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1940. He was educated at Auburn University, the University of Chattanooga, and the University of Massachusetts. He studied with George Cress, Leonard Baskin, Fred Becker, and Jack Coughlin. His work is represented in The National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Metropolitan Museum, The British Museum, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Vatican Library, and The Israel Museum, to name a few. He has exhibited internationally, and is a member of the Society of Printers, Boston, an Honorary Member of The Society of Wood Engravers (London), and an Academician of the National Academy of Design. In addition to being an illustrator, he is also a printer, painter, printmaker, designer, author, essayist, and teacher. He has served on the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design; was the 1995 Whitney J. Oates Fellow in Humanities at Princeton University; was artist and writer in residence at Vassar College in 1998. He is currently Irwin and Pauline Alper Glass Professor of Art and the Printer to the College at Smith College. He was the Elliott lecturer at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto in the fall of 2000 and the Third Flannery O'Connor Memorial Lecturer, Georgia State College, Milledgeville, Georgia in 2001.
The books Moser has illustrated and/or designed forms a list of over 350 titles including Moby-Dick, Frankenstein, and The Divine Comedy. Moser's edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, won a National Book Award in 1983. His Jump, Again! The Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, was a The New York Times "Ten Best Illustrated Children's Books" of 1987. He has received numerous citations and awards from Communication Arts Magazine, Bookbuilders West, The American Association of University Presses, The American Institute of Graphic Arts. He won the prestigious Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities from the Arts and Humanities Foundation in 2006. His work on the monumental Pennyroyal Caxton Bible was the only one-man exhibit ever to be mounted at the Library of National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. by a living artist.
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My brother Tommy was tall and skinny when we were kids. I was short and fat. Tommy saved money and pinched a quarter so hard the eagle squawked. I spent money like there was a hole in my pocket. Tommy was reserved in his affections. I was demonstrative. His temper had a short fuse. Mine had a long one.
This is just part of a long litany of differences between two brothers who were spawned of the same parents, grew up in the same town of Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, ate at the same table, absorbed our family's xenophobic and racist values, went to the same schools, listened to the same radio shows, and saw the same movies. The only thing we shared in common was a love of our parents and of our dogs.
Tommy and I became even more factious as adults. Our differences escalated as we got older and resulted in our being at odds with each other for most of our lives. That discord did not abate until both of us were in our sixties.
For years—decades, actually—I tried to understand how and why my brother and I grew up to be such radically different people. He was conservative. I was liberal. He was a big game hunter. I have no guns in my house. He was a racist. I am a racist in recovery. He was a ...
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