Ed Moses

Art career and later life

Early years In the 1950s and 1960s, Moses was part a group of artists named the Cool School, composed of Craig Kauffman, Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Edward Kienholz, John Altoon, Ken Price and Billy Al Bengston.

Middle years Moses joined the art faculty in 1968 at the new University of California campus at Irvine, where he would stay until 1972.

Personal life Ed is survived by his son, Andy Moses, who is also an accomplished artist.

Public collections Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Dallas Museum of Art Dartmouth College Gallery, Hanover, NH Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, CO Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Irvine Collection, Irvine, CA Janss Foundation, Thousand Oaks, CA Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL Menil Foundation, Rice University Art Gallery Houston, TX Minneapolis Institute of Art Musee national d'art moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA Museum of Fine Arts Houston Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Gallery of Art Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Awards 1996 – Honorary Ph.D., Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA 1993 – Long Beach City College Hall of Fame Inductee 1980 – Guggenheim Fellowship 1976 – National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant