Tony Bernard Mosman (born Anton Bernard Mosman) (1886–1985) was an American artist from Carroll, Iowa, United States. He produced landscape, still-life, and portrait paintings in oil, watercolor, pastel and acrylic. He was a published poet in the Atlantic Monthly[1] and has also written a novel and a series of short stories.[1]
Anton Bernard Mosman | |
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 Anton B. Mosman, in about 1980 | |
| Born | September 11, 1886 Carroll, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | August 16, 1985 (aged 98) Carroll, Iowa, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Olivet Cemetery Carroll, Iowa, U.S. |
| Spouses | Barbara Mary Wille (1886–1954) and Margaret Nees (1896–1989) |
| Children | Freda Barbara (Stevens) Mosman (1914–1993) Grace Josephine (Darveaux) Mosman (1920–1975) Louis Paul Mosman (1923–2017) Harriet Mosman (1927–1928) |
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Background
editMosman was born in 1886 in Carroll, Iowa, to Antonius Albertus Mosman (1856–1928) and Helena “Lena” Pittmann (or Puttmann)(1863–1956).[2] He was one of eight children.[3] He married Barbara Mary Wille (1886–1954) on June 3, 1913. He married a second time, on June 14, 1958, to Margaret Nees (1896–1989).[2] He served as a Private of the National Guard in Carroll for 1+1⁄2 years.[4] Mosman and Barbara had four children: Freda Barbara (Mosman) Stevens (1914–1993), Grace Josephine (Mosman) Darveaux (1920–1975), Louis Paul Mosman (1923–2017) and Harriet Mosman (1927–1928).
Mosman owned and operated the Carroll Paint Shop for thirty years,[2][5][6] but he considered that being an artist was his true profession.[7] As a "widely recognized Western Iowa artist"[8] he twice exhibited his paintings in Omaha, Nebraska at the Jocelyn Memorial Art Museum.[9][10][11] He also exhibited art at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, and at art centers of: Sioux City, Iowa;[12] Des Moines, Iowa; Denver, Iowa; Ames, Iowa;[13] and Fort Dodge, Iowa.[2]
In 1938, after submitting works to a national contest judged by Eleanor Roosevelt, he was asked to donate the paintings to a traveling exhibition that would go all over the country.[14] He was appointed the Carroll committeeman for an art exhibit at Cornell College.[15][16] In 1965, he exhibited 41 paintings in the Carroll County State Bank.[13] and in the Carroll Public Library in 1980.[17] It was reported in 1965 that he had "over 1,000 paintings to his credit and some have brought as much as $150 at exhibitions."[13] He sold about 30 of his paintings in 1979 in Sarasota and Tampa, Florida; Tucson, Arizona; San Francisco, California; and New York, New York.[1]
He died of a stroke on August 16, 1985, at Carroll, Iowa, and is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Carroll, Iowa.[8][18]
References
edit- ^ a b c Times Herald (Carroll, Iowa), Tuesday, September 11, 1979, p. 5
- ^ a b c d Kenneth Freeman Mosman, ed., Fifteenth Through Twentieth Century Mos(s)man Families of Great Britain With Descendant Migrations and Histories, [Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen Publishing Company, 1997], p. 271–272.
- ^ Anton A. Mosman, Obituary, The Carroll Times, Iowa, 26 Dec 1928, p. 1.
- ^ Military Registration Card
- ^ 1920 U.S. Census, Ward 3, Carroll, Carroll County, Iowa, Sheet No. 10B, Line 55
- ^ 1930 U.S. Census, Ward 3, Carroll, Carroll County, Iowa, Sheet No. 8A, Line 42
- ^ 1940 U.S. Census, Ward 3, Carroll, Carroll County, Iowa, Sheet No. 9B, Line 65
- ^ a b Tony B. Mosman, Obituary, Times Herald (Carroll, Iowa), 19 August 1985, p. 2
- ^ Carroll Daily Herald (Carroll, Iowa), Tuesday, November 30, 1937, p. 1
- ^ Carroll Daily Times Herald (Carroll, Iowa), Tuesday, February 1, 1949, p. 1
- ^ Council Bluffs Nonpareil (Council Bluffs, Iowa), Wednesday, February 2, 1949, p. 19
- ^ Carroll Daily Times Herald (Carroll, Iowa), Friday, May 25, 1951, p. 1
- ^ a b c Carroll Daily Times Herald (Carroll, Iowa), Tuesday, February 9, 1965, p. 1
- ^ Carroll Daily Herald (Carroll, Iowa), Monday, May 23, 1938, p. 8
- ^ Carroll Daily Herald (Carroll, Iowa), Thursday, December 7, 1939, p. 3
- ^ The Mason City Globe-Gazette (Mason City, Iowa), Thursday, December 7, 1939, p. 10
- ^ Times Herald (Carroll, Iowa), Friday, April 25, 1980, p. 2
- ^ Tony Mosman, Obituary, Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, 18 Aug 1985.