Barry Moser (born 1940)^[1] is an American visual artist and educator, known as aprintmaker specializing in wood engravings, and an illustrator of numerous works of literature.^[2] He is also the owner and operator of the Pennyroyal Press, an engraving and small book publisher founded in 1970.^[1]

Moser was born in 1940 inChattanooga, Tennessee.^[3] Moser studied at theBaylor School,Auburn University, and theUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga,^[4] and did graduate work at theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst. He studied printmaking withLeonard Baskin.^[5][6]

Moser is known for his illustrations forLewis Carroll'sAlice's Adventures in Wonderland andThrough the Looking-Glass, each of which consisted of more than a hundred prints, and the former of which won him theNational Book Award for design and illustration in 1983.^[7] He has illustrated nearly 300 other works as well, including portions of theTime Life book seriesThe Enchanted World,A River Runs Through It, andMoby-Dick. He published his own illustrated Bible edition,^[3] and he illustrated theAllen Mandelbaum translation ofDante'sInferno, published in 1980 asInferno: First Book of the Divine Comedy.

He has been on the faculty of the Department of Illustration Studies at theRhode Island School of Design and was also on the faculty of theWilliston Northampton School for many years. He is Professor in Residence and Printer to the College atSmith College. Barry Moser also teaches Life Drawing at the Glen East Workshop, held in summers in thePioneer Valley ofMassachusetts.

His works have been displayed in such places as theBritish Museum, theMetropolitan Museum,Harvard University, and theLibrary of Congress.

In 2007 the Smithsonian Art Collectors Program commissioned Moser to create a print for their Small Treasures series, the sales of which benefit educational and cultural programs through the Smithsonian Associates. The resulting relief engraving,An Old Chestnut is on display in theS. Dillon Ripley Center in theNational Mall.

• The Mother Goose Collection (silkscreen art book, limited edition, 300 copies).Maurice Sendak (illustrator), Barry Moser (illustrator), Seymour Chwast (illustrator), Daniel Pelvin (illustrator), Guy Billout (illustrator),Chris Van Allsburg (illustrator). New York City, NY: Serigrafica. 1990.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)^[8]

• Hamilton, Virginia (1988).In the Beginning: Creation Stories From Around the World. Barry Moser (illustrator). New York City, NY: Harcourt Brace.ISBN 9780152387426.
• Kesey, Ken (1990).Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear. Barry Moser (illustrator). Viking Juvenile.ISBN 978-0670811366.^[2]
• And Still the Turtle Watched (1991)
• Polly Vaughn: A Traditional British Ballad (1992)
• Speak!: Children's Book Illustrators Brag about their Dogs (1993)
• The Farm Summer 1942 (1994)
• I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat (1994)
• Vaughan, Marcia (1995).Whistling Dixie. Barry Moser (illustrator). HarperCollins Children's Books.ISBN 978-0060210304.^[2]
• The Pageant (1995)
• Our New Puppy (1996)
• Hamilton, Virginia (1996).When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing. Barry Moser (illustrator). Blue Sky Press.ISBN 9780590473729.^[2]
• Parks, Van Dyke; Harris, Joel Chandler (1997).Jump, Again! The Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit. Barry Moser (illustrator). Harcourt Children's Books.ISBN 978-0152015596.^[2]
• A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa (1997)
• Dippers (1997)
• Great Ghost Stories (1998)
• Dogs of Myth: Tales from Around the World (1999)
• Earthquack! (2002)
• That Summer (2002)
• Voices of Ancient Egypt (2003)
• Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems (2004)
• Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale (2004)
• The Three Silly Billies (2005)
• A Horse Named Funny Cide (2006)
• Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature (2007)
• Jack London's Dog (2008)
• Hogwood Steps Out: A Good, Good Pig Story (2008)
• Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes (2009)
• The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale (2011)
• Oh, Harry! (2011)
• Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World (2011)
• Cat Talk (2013)
• We Were Brothers (2015)

• Frankenstein (1984)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1989)
• A River Runs Through It (1989)
• Beauty and the Beast (1992)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1992)
• First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996)

• Simon Brett, 'Abigail Rorer & Barry Moser', inParenthesis; 21 (Autumn 2011), pg 15-17
• Moser, Barry,Wood Engraving: the Art of Wood Engraving & Relief Engraving (2006)ISBN 1567922791

• Barry Moser and his own Pennyroyal Press
• Barry Moser etchings, engravings, and papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• The Papers of Barry Moser at Dartmouth College Library
• Pennyroyal Press records at theMortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College Special Collections
• Barry Moser atLibrary of Congress, with 144 library catalog records

• American illustrators
• American printmakers
• Rhode Island School of Design faculty
• Auburn University alumni
• University of Tennessee at Chattanooga alumni
• University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
• 1940 births
• Living people
• Smith College faculty
• American wood engravers

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