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Michelson Galleries, the premiere source of his wood engravings, watercolors, and fine art books since 1982. His work has been published in more than two hundred books for children and adults.īarry Moser, who lives in western Massachusetts, is represented at R. World renowned for his children’s illustrations, wood engravings, watercolors, and reinterpretations of the classics, including the Pennyroyal Press editions of Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, 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. 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. He later studied printing and typography at the Gehenna Press under the tutelage of Harold McGrath and Leonard Baskin. He moved to New England and devoted himself to teaching and to learning for himself the crafts of etching and wood engraving. He was accepted into the Theological Seminary at Vanderbilt, but he declined to attend. He put himself through his last two years of college as a Methodist preacher, but his calling to the ministry didn’t last. Polly Vaughn: a Traditional British Ballad.ĭesigned, illustrated, and retold in an American setting by Barry Moser (Call number: PZ 7 M834p 1992).Barry Moser Barry Moser and Richard Michelson at the 22nd Annual Children’s Illustration Showīarry Moser was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1940.