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Moss, B. Frank III

Last Name: Moss
First Name: Ben Frank
Dates:
*1936 (Date of Birth)
9.8.2019 (Date of Death)
Biography/History: Ben Frank Moss was born in Philadelphia, attended the Stony Brook School for Boys on Long Island, NY, received his BA from Whitworth College in Spokane, WA, was briefly a graduate student at Princeton Theological Seminary and in 1963 received his MFA from Boston University with high honors. He was the George Frederick Jewett Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College where he assumed the chairmanship of the department in 1988 after teaching for thirteen year in the MFA program at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Prior to his tenure at Iowa he was for ten years the Director of the MFA and Visiting Critics program at Fort Wright College in Spokane, WA. Before leaving the Northwest for Iowa he founded and was the acting Dean of the Spokane Studio School.
Related Objects:
1982.1 (Drawing, Falling Figure # 2, 1967)