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LewAllen Galleries is pleased to announce the first major posthumous survey exhibition of paintings by renowned abstracted landscape painter Forrest Moses who passed away in 2021.

The show assembles a rare range of nearly forty paintings, including some of the artist鈥檚 largest and most exemplary works, created over five decades and revealing the subtle development of a modern master鈥檚 evolving and refined painting sensibility and philosophical maturity across a long and distinguished career.

Considered one of the finest painters of the abstracted landscape genre in American contemporary art, Moses鈥檚 (1934-2021) comes out of a rich tradition that sought to capture both the majesty and intimacy of America鈥檚 diverse natural environments. His work conveys the kind of luminosity found in the astonishing late-career landscapes of John Singer Sargent, and, like Sargent, Moses evokes the flow of water or rustling of leaves with confident brushstrokes. Having studied in New York during the 1950s, Moses credits the Abstract Expressionist movement fomenting around him at the time to renewing his creative interest in contemporary art. Some have suggested that Moses鈥� synthesis of classical subject matter and a contemporary approach could link him artistically with painters such as Joan Mitchell (an artist he much admired) whose works were inspired by and gestured toward the features of landscape though presented on canvas in a wholly abstracted mode.