biografia di Francis Luis MORA (1874-1940)

Birth place: Montivideo, Uruguay

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, illustrator, muralist, etcher, teacher

Studied: his father; BMFA Sch. with F. Benson & E. Tarbell; ASL with H.S. Mowbray

Exhibited: Boston AC, 1898-1908; PAFA Ann., 1898-34 frequently; Phila. AC, 1901 (gold); AAS, 1902 (gold); AIC, 1902-36; St. Louis Expo, 1904 (med.); NAD,1895, 1897, 1899, 1905 (Hallgarten prize), 1931 (prize); NYWCC, 1907; Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1907-35 (10 times); SC, 1908 (prize), 1910 (prize); Pan.-Pacific Expo, San Fran., 1915 (two gold medals).

Member: ASL (vice-res., 1910); ANA, 1904; NA, 1906; Arch. Lg., 1903; AWCS; NYWCC; SAE; Ceramic Soc.; Nat. Assn. Portrait Painters; SC; Soc. of Illus.; Soc. of Am. Artists

Work: BAC; Columbia Univ.; MoMA; MMA; NY State Gal., Albany; Dallas Pub. Lib.; Youngstown Pub. Lib.; Newark Mus.; Yale Univ. AG; New-York Hist. Soc.; Butler IA; LACMA; Dartmouth College; Lynn, MA Pub. Lib. (mural); Oakland (CA) Mus. Art; TMA; Newark Mus. Assn.; Butler AI; Lafayette, IN; Ft. Worth AA; Dallas AA; Muncie, IN AA; White House (portrait of Harding); Chamber of Commerce, Wash., DC; etchings, WPA murals: Town Hall Club, NYC, USPOs in Catasauqua, PA and Clarksville, TN.

Comments: Son of Spanish sculptor, Domingo Mora, who emigrated with his family to the U.S. in 1880. Illustr.: Harper"s Weekly and Round Table. Did some traveling and painting in the West, and worked as a WPA artist. Teaching: Wm. M. Chase"s New York Art Acad.; Grand Central Sch. Art; ASL.

Sources: WW40; P&H Samuels, 331; The Boston AC; 300 Years of American Art, 663; Falk, Exh. Record Series.