Hampshire College has acquired a collection of works by internationally renowned artist and illustrator Barry Moser, and it will be on public view through Sept. 30 in a special exhibit at the Hampshire College Art Gallery, in the Harold F. Johnson Library on the Amherst campus.
The exhibit, “Design & Build: The Art of the Book,” traces the intersections of pedagogy and practice in Moser’s work. Moser has taught in western Massachusetts for 50 years, currently at Smith College in Northampton.
Moser’s work is represented in collections, museums and libraries in the United States and abroad, including at the Metropolitan Museum, The British Museum, the Library of Congress and the Vatican Library. He has illustrated and/or designed hundreds of books, including Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” which won the National Book Award for design and illustration in 1983. His monumental Pennyroyal Caxton Bible was featured in the only one-man exhibit ever mounted by a living artist, at the Library of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. www.hampshire.edu/gallery/hampshire-college-art-gallery