NANCY DUSTIN WALL MOURE

935 West Mountain Street, Glendale, California 91202

Tel.: 818-242-7000; email: nancymoure@earthlink.net

Nancy Moure is a freelance curator specializing in the field of historic California art. She obtained her M.A. in art history from UCLA and was Assistant Curator of American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for fifteen years. Her Dictionary of Art and Artists in Southern California Before 1930, first issued in 1975, was a pioneering work in the field of California art history. She has followed this up with more than 50 books and articles (see list below) including the historical surveys: Painting and Sculpture in Los Angeles, 1900-1945, Drawings and Illustrations by Southern California Artists Before 1950, and Loners, Mavericks and Dreamers: Art in Los Angeles Before 1900. She has recently completed California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media, the first tome to survey the state’s art from its beginnings to the immediate present. She edits the Newsletter of the Historical Collections Council (Orange County Museum of Art) and maintains the website www.californiaart.com that lists publications, galleries, news and events pertaining to historic California art.

RESUME

EDUCATION:

B. A. in Art, San Diego State College, 1965

M. A. in Art History, UCLA, 1968

WORK EXPERIENCE:

1968-1983 Assistant Curator, American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Specialty: pre-1940 Southern California Art

Duties -- caring for the art collection, researching,

writing, putting together exhibitions,

building a library of books on American art

Spring, 1985 - December 1988

Art Consultant, Jonathan Club, LA

Duties -- restoring and re-framing art works, acquiring

new art works, writing articles on the club's art

for the club's magazine, Jonathan.

1989-present Independent Art Consultant with a specialty in pre-1940 Southern California art

Advising collectors,

Appraising and selling art

Author of numerous publications (see attached list)

Guest curator for various shows

Publications (listed chronologically)

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, Los Angeles Painters of the Nineteen-Twenties, exh. cat., Pomona College Gallery, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, California, April 5 - May 3, 1972.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, California Water Color Society Collection, brochure for installation held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 1 - 27, 1973.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, The California Water Color Society; Prize Winners 1931-1954, Index to Exhibitions 1921-1954, Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1973.

American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, June 23 - July 22, 1973, catalogue of paintings and biographies of artists by Nancy Moure.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, “Five Eastern Artists Out West,” American Art Journal, v. 5, November 1973, pp. 15-31.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure and Phyllis Moure, Artists’ Clubs and Exhibitions in Los Angeles Before 1930, Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1974.

American Narrative Painting, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1 - November 17, 1974, catalogue notes by Nancy Wall Moure.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, “California Design 1910: Southern California Landscape Painting,” American Art Review, v. 1, November-December 1974, pp. 134-142.

Nancy Moure, “Five Los Angeles Artists in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,” Southern California Quarterly, v. 57, Spring 1975, pp. 27-51.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure and Lyn Wall Smith, Dictionary of Art and Artists in Southern California Before 1930, Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1975.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, William Louis Sonntag, 1822-1900, Los Angeles: Goldfield Publishing, 1980.

Lyn Wall Smith and Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, Index to Reproductions of American Paintings in Books, Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, William Wendt 1865-1946, exh. cat., Laguna Beach Museum of Art, February 5-27, 1977.

Southern California Artists 1890-1940, exh. cat., Laguna Beach Museum of Art, July 10 - August 28, 1979, biographies of artists by Nancy Dustin Wall Moure.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, Painting and Sculpture in Los Angeles 1900-1945, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 25 - November 23, 1980.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and the Eucalyptus School in Ruth Westpahl’s Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland, Irvine, Ca. : Westpahl Publishing, 1982.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, Drawings and Illustrations by Southern California Artists Before 1950, exh. cat., Laguna Beach Museum of Art, August 6 - September 16, 1982.

Many articles for the Jonathan (publication of the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles) using the byline of Paul Chevalier, Spring 1985-December 1988.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, ed., Historical Collections Council Newsletter (of the Laguna Art Museum), v. 1 (Fall 1985) - v. 11, no. 3 (July 1996). (Republished as Publications in Southern California Art, No. 5)

Newsletter for the American Art Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Summer 1991 - 1993.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Introduction," California Painters (1900-1950), Poulsen Galleries, Inc., Pasadena, Ca., 1988.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, text for American Paintings: The California School, William A. Karges Fine Art, Carmel and Laguna Beach, c. 1989.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "California Art, North and South," in James L. Coran and Walter A. Nelson-Rees, If Pictures Could Talk: Stories About California Paintings in Our Collection, Oakland, Ca.: WIM, 1989.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Rooms Full of Views - The Jonathan Club's Collection of Art," Antiques and Fine Art, VI, September/October 1989, pp. 108-115.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Collector's Profile: Joseph Moure's Search for Excellence," Antiques and Fine Art, VII, December 1989, pp. 69-72.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Unmasking Ejnar Hansen," Antiques and Fine Art, 3, January 1990, pp. 29-34.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Anders Aldrin: Intuitive Individualist: His Search for Emotional Expression," Antiques and Fine Art, VII, March 1990, pp. 76-83.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "A Quest for Excellence: Chronicling the Life of Mabel Alvarez," Antiques and Fine Art, VII, May 1990, pp. 94-102

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Abel Warshawsky," Art of California, September 1990, pp. 61-65.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Catalogue Entries," A Time and Place: From the Ries Collection of California Painting, Oakland Museum, December 1, 1990 - March 3, 1991, circulated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 25 - July 7, 1991 and to the Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, November 9, 1991 - January 5, 1992.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Collectors' Profile: Frank and Julia Tan," Antiques and Fine Art, VIII, January/February 1991, pp. 69-72.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Essay on Richard Campbell," for an exhibition brochure Bottom Drawer: Etchings by Richard Campbell, at the Michael Kizhner Galleries, Los Angeles, printed for Baylor Studios, Pacific Palisades, California.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Scenes of California Life, 1930-1950," in Scenes of California Life 1930-1950, exhibition at the Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield, March 9 - April 10, 1991. Also authored supplement which was bound in with some of the hard covers, titled "Themes in California Scene Paintings" pp. 1-27.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "California Garden Scenes," Art of California, 4, September 1991, pp. 52-57.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "The California Primitives of Albert Kramer," in catalogue to The L. A. Art Show, Friday, October 5...Sunday, October 7...[1991], Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, managed by Caskey-Lees, Topanga, California.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Carl Dentzel Bequest to the Laguna Art Museum," Historical Collections Council Newsletter, v.7, no.3, May 1992, pp. 7-10.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Book review of Utah Art," Antiques and Fine Art, v.9, no.2, January/February 1992, p. 109.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Hilaire Hiler," Art of California, v.5, no.1, January 1992, pp. 36-40.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "William Gaw, The Science of Color," Art of California, v.5, no.5, November 1992, pp. 19-21.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Politics Behind an Art Museum for Los Angeles," Southern California Quarterly, v. LXXIV, no. 3, Fall 1992, pp. 247-275.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Laguna Beach Art Association 1918 - 1955," in A History of the Laguna Art Museum 1918-1993, Laguna Beach: Laguna Art Museum, 1993.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, Loners, Mavericks & Dreamers: Art in Los Angeles Before 1900, catalogue for an exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum, November 1993-January 1994.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Loners, Mavericks & Dreamers: Art in Los Angeles Prior to 1900," Art of California, v. 6, September/October 1993, pp. 18-21.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Loners, Mavericks & Dreamers: Art in Los Angeles Before 1900," American Art Review, v. VI, February/March 1994, pp. 144-149.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, entry on Dorr Bothwell in Susan Ehrlich's Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957, exh. cat., UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 1995.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, forward to Carol Weiss and Judy Newton, Beyond Realism: The Still Life and Landscape Art of Frederik Ebbesen Grue, Indiana State Museum, fall 1995.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, Partners in Illusion: Alberta Binford and William J. McCloskey, Santa Ana: Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, 1996.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, “Market Report: Southern California, Parts 1 and 2,” Southwest Art, February and March 1996.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, “George Barker (1882-1965),” Fine Arts Trader, August 1996, pp. 32-36.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "The California Art Club," in Impressions of California, exh. cat., Irvine Museum, September 6, 1996 - January 18, 1997.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "The Gail and Edwin Gregson Collection of California Art," Southwest Art, October 1996

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Marion Wachtel, Woman Artist of the Arroyo Seco," The Southern Californian (newsletter of the Historical Society of Southern California), Spring 1996?

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, “Joe Duncan Gleason (1881-1959),” The Fine Arts Trader, April 1997, pp. 42-45.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media, Los Angeles: Dustin Publications, 1998.

Publications in Southern California Art 4, 5, 6, with contributions by Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, Los Angeles, Ca.: Dustin Publications, 1999. Over 500 pps.

Nancy Moure and Nancy Tarascio, "The Desert: An Art Colony?" and Nancy Moure "Art Colony Pioneers," next, v. 5, no. 10, October 1999, pp. 26-30 and pp. 31-33.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, The World of Zarh Pritchard, Los Angeles, Ca.: William A. Karges Fine Art, 1999. 64 pps.

Nancy Moure, "California's Art Battles of the 1930's," West Coast Peddler, v. 31, no. 11, November 1999, pp. 47-56.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, “One Hundred-Eighty Years of Santa Barbara Art,” Noticias, v. XLV, No. 4, Winter, 1999.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, "Chronology of Modern Art in Southern California," in Sarah Vure, Circles of Influence: Impressionism to Modernism in Southern California Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, Ca., June 2000.

Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, The California Club Collection, Los Angeles, Ca.: The California Club, 2000, in process.

Nancy Moure, Index to the South Coast News 1920-1945; Index to the Hollywood newspapers 1900-1935; Index to the Pasadena Star News and other Pasadena newspapers 1900-1945 (Publications in California Art 8), Los Angeles: Dustin Publications fall 2005.

Nancy Moure, Newsletter of the Historical Collections Council 1999-present (Publications in California Art 9), Los Angeles: Dustin Publications, fall 2005.