First World War: Wounded Sailors Listening to Musicians Playing on Board a Ship c.1918 (?)
Oswald Moser (1874–1953)
Wellcome Collection
Figure painter and illustrator, born in London. Moser was a mature man before he pursued art seriously, studying at St John’s Wood School of Art. He exhibited extensively at RI, of which he was a member, as well as RA, RSA, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Won a silver medal at Paris Salon in 1922. Moser’s work has a strong emphasis on religious themes. Glasgow Corporation bought his picture Girl in Red. Lived in Bournemouth, Hampshire, later at Rye, Sussex.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
