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Francis Luis MoraFlamenco Dancer, Sevilla, 1909Oil on board9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Framed: 18 1/4 x 16 1/2 x 3 inchesSigned: F. Louis Mora / Sevilla 1909 lower right
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Francis Luis MoraPlaya con Llüats, 1909Oil on artist board7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches
Framed: 15 3/4 x 17 3/4 x 2 1/2 inchesSigned: F. Luis Mora / 1909 lower right
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Francis Luis MoraThe Opal Pool - Coast of CatalinaOil on artist board9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches
Framed: 17 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 2 5/8 inchesSigned: F. Louis Mora lower right
Overview
Born in Uruguay in 1874, his family moved to America when he was a child. His father, Domingo Mora, was a well-known Spanish artist who gave his son his early artistic training. Mora also attended the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School where he studied drawing and painting under Frank Benson and Edmund Trabell. Later he studied under H. Siddens Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York City.
As did most promising artists of the time, Mora traveled to Europe to study the great paintings of the Old Masters. The influence of the Spanish Masters, especially Velazquez, is evident in Mora's choice of subject matter and style throughout his career. "Perhaps it is these very conflicting conditions in the life of Mr. Luis Mora that have evolved the unusual quality of his art, an art essentially Spanish in subject and feeling and wholly modern and American in expression (Craftsm, 17:402)."
Over two hundred of Mora's sketchbooks are conserved at the Archives of American Art. The particular sketchbooks from which the exhibited drawings are derived can be dated back to the early 20th century when Mora resided in Gaylordsville, Connecticut, New York City, and briefly in Carmel, California. Mora was also commissioned to paint the portraits of Andrew Carnegie and President Warren G. Harding, both of which hang in the White House.
Memberships
Allied Artists of America
American Ceramic Society
American Watercolor Society
Art Students League of New York (vice president)
Boston Art Club
Kent Art Association (founding member, 1923)
Lotos Club
MacDowell Club
National Academy of Design (ANA, 1904; NA, 1906)
National Arts Club
National Association of Portrait Painters
New York Architectural League
New York Society of Painters
New York Watercolor Club
Pen and Brush Club
Philadelphia Art Club
Players Club
Salmagundi Club
Society of American Artists
Society of American Etchers
Society of Illustrators
Town Hall Club
Select Exhibitions
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Students League, solo exhibition, 1909
Boston Art Club                                    Â
National Academy of Design, 1896-1941
New York School of Art, Solo Exhibition, 1907
Panama Pacific Exhibition (two gold medals), 1915
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia Art Club
St. Louis Worlds Fair, 1904
Museums and Public Collections
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Greater Lafayette Museum, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York                         Â
National Academy of Design, New York                               Â
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Park Service, Arizona Ebbel homestead                                                  Â
Newark Museum, New Jersey
New York Historical Society                                       Â
Oakland Museum, California
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
San Diego Museum of Art, California
San Francisco Museum of Art, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.                                               Â
Toledo Museum, Ohio                                                           Â
White House, Washington, D.C.            Â