Apirl 11 — June 14, 2009

Thirteen Miles from Paradise
Paintings by John Moore

Works by this celebrated faculty member and out-going chair of Penn’s Department
of Fine Arts. In collaboration with the School of Design.

This exhibition of industrial landscape paintings by John Moore executed over the last 3 decades focuses on sites from Conneaut, Ohio to Waterville, Maine, including Coatesville, PA,
a locale that specifically inspired American Modernists such as Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler. Moore has revisited places he painted 20 years ago, and his most recent paintings reveal changes that have occurred. John Moore’s paintings resemble places where he grew up. While the images appear immediately recognizable, the paintings are in fact partial composites based on site specifics, formal concerns and oral history as told by individuals with ties
to the sites.

(Paradise Pennsylvania is 13 miles west of Coatesville, and is Amish farmland;
the rural antithesis of heavy industry)


Foil, 2001, oil on canvas

Near Lincoln Highway, Coatesville, 1988-93, oil on canvas



Waterville Afternoon, 1984, oil on canvas