Fine Art Prints by Charles " Chaz" Moser
The cover photo you see is the 1979 oil painting, “Night Call,” by Geneva artist, Charles “Chaz” Leete Moser. At 24, he was just becoming known. On his first solo exhibition in New York City, this work alone sold with other nightscapes for thousands of dollars each within hours. Charles went on to be internationally known—acclaimed by art buyers, teachers, and critics from ARTs Magazine to the Christian Science Monitor.
“Previously recognized as a realist painter who exhibited an indebtedness to photo-realism as well as to Edward Hopper, Moser has literally been coming out of the woods into a new field of painterly endeavor...”
—John W. Cook, ARTs Magazine (February 1984)
—John W. Cook, ARTs Magazine (February 1984)
In Charles’s words from one magazine article about him:
“Our nation’s problematic relationship to the land has been a source of inspiration to artists for nearly two centuries. The way I approach landscape themes has evolved over the years. …By 1980, my interest in photographic reality gave way to an exploration of the magical qualities of natural light and the psychological effect of monumentalizing a few simple landscape elements. …I began drawing from specific sites. Paintings became studio reconstructions of these experiences. Small in scale and gentle in temperament, the subject is always a landscape which shows evidence of a previous human presence and is now in the process of returning to wilderness.”
Charles also developed his technique to paint a series of powerful portraits of people—landscapes of character in their own way. Though in 2006, Charles’s home and studio were destroyed by fire, and he lost 10 years of work (50 paintings), since then he’s discovered a trove of photographic slides. The Stomping Grounds has reproduced Charles’s paintings from these slides. For the first time ever, fine art prints of Charles Moser’s work are available for sale.
