 Photograph by Stuart Pearl |
Moses Pearl | |
| Birth Date: 1917 |
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| Death Date: 2003 Artist Gallery |
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| Moses Pearl was a native Clevelander who studied at the Cleveland School of Art (Cleveland Institute of Art) after WWII, and then at Kent State where he earned a degree as an art educator. During his student years, and as a professional painter, he rubbed shoulders with the region’s most talented watercolorists of the period, including Frank Wilcox, Viktor Schreckengost, and Paul Travis. Although their significant influences rubbed off, Pearl was an artist of independent vision with an expansive, enthusiastic approach to the watercolor medium.
Pearl actively documented the people, architecture, and flavor of life within the city of Cleveland and the surrounding counties for his entire life. He did so with an individual gestural style that was appealing for its color, animation and joie de vivre. He was a talented draftsman and by his own admission began drawing compulsively by the age of 5 or 6. As a professional artist he was included in 19 Cleveland Museum of Art May Shows, where he won several awards. He was also accepted into 15 National Mid-Year exhibitions at the Butler Institute of American Art where he also won awards.
He valued his education his whole life, both his own and the education that he could impart on his many students over the course of a 30 year teaching career in the public school system of Cleveland. He believed teaching art could help students learn how to think creatively which would benefit them throughout their lives. His teaching extended into his family and influenced all of his children, two of which became accomplished artists in their own right.
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