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One Hundred Portraits by Barry Moser
One Hundred Portraits by Barry Moser







One Hundred Portraits by Barry Moser One Hundred Portraits by Barry Moser One Hundred Portraits by Barry Moser

Godine (17) Dino Buzzati (1) Dorchester Speakers Forum (1) ebook (1) Eddie Chuculate (7) Eileen Myles (1) Elizabeth David (3) Ellie Grabski (3) Emelia Attridge (8) Ernest Hebert (6) events (5) Extreme Opposites (1) Franz Werfel (1) From David R. Pritchard (141) David Field (23) David R. Philanthropy: A Holiday Pie Worth SharingĪdam Van Doren (1) Alison Larkin (1) Aram Saroyan (3) Arthur Ransome (1) As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1) Barry Moser (4) Bobby McGee (4) Brittany Bakacs (4) Carl Chiarenza (1) Carrie Dieringer (1) Casey Hicks (6) Charles Reznikoff (1) Chelsey Fenn (7) Christina Freitas (13) Codie Steensma (1) Correspondence (1) Crime and Puzzlement (1) Damion Searls (3) Daniel E.Red Sox star Carl Crawford will not open an antiqu.Elizabeth David - How to Keep It Simple at Christmas.But then there are the eyes sparking the portraits to life: How magnificent is the stare of his chin-raised Fanny Burney.

One Hundred Portraits by Barry Moser

The most fascinating textures tend to be the folds of flesh itself, as in the magnificently rumpled face of W.H. In his more recent works, the bravura use of visual effects has given way to a sparer style, with a strong use of shadow that adds a sense of mortality. Godine, 125 pages, $35) collects the best, mainly literary: from a delicately rendered Lewis Carroll lost in reverie to an appropriately dismal Theodore Dreiser and an owlish Flannery O'Connor. Moser has over the past 40 years captured countless famous countenances. Perhaps the finest printmaker at work today, Mr. The woodcut, originally created for a limited edition of Melville's underrated poetry, is a chiaroscuro masterpiece, a symphony of textures-wispy filaments forming the beard, dense crosshatching for the waistcoat, a freer hand creating the untidy coat. Barry Moser has portrayed a man whose greatest works lie unheralded and (seemingly) forever forgotten. While Herman Melville had enjoyed early success, it gave way to hard toil in obscurity and Manhattan's Custom House. One Hundred Portraits receives a nod from the Wall Street Journal:









One Hundred Portraits by Barry Moser