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DAC FOUNDATION  |  Gift of Mobile Museum of Art 1950 | CAM-2022.AW.0009 |  Watercolor on Paper, 14.5 x 22 inches This painting is an example of Moon’s late abstract work. DAC Foundation, Wetumpka, Alabama

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A House at Bayou La Batre

DAC FOUNDATION  |  Gift of Mobile Museum of Art c. 1948 | CAM-2022.AW.0007 |  Watercolor on Paper, 15.25 x 22.75 inches This is an example of Moon’s Alabama Bayou paintings. DAC Foundation, Wetumpka, Alabama

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Vincent Barber Shop

DAC FOUNDATION  |  Gift of Mobile Museum of Art c. 1950 | CAM-2022.AW.0006 |  Watercolor on Paper, 22.25 x 14.75 inches This painting is an example of Moon’s dreamlike realism. Included in the following exhibitions: “Art in Embassies,” in Bucharest, Romania, 2011; “The Bayou Painters: South Alabama’s Art Colony (1946–1953),”

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Birmingham Steel Mill

DAC FOUNDATION  |  Gift of Mobile Museum of Art c. 1948 | CAM-2022.AW.0003 |  Watercolor on Paper, 21.5 x 14.5 inches Although Moon grew up in Andalusia, Alabama, he was born in Birmingham, Alabama. DAC Foundation, Wetumpka, Alabama

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Mandy’s Shanty

DAC FOUNDATION  |  Gift of Mobile Museum of Art c. 1950 | CAM-2022.AW.0008 |  Watercolor on Paper, 15 x 22.5 inches Included in the following exhibitions: “Art in Embassies,” in Bucharest, Romania, 2011; “The Bayou Painters: South Alabama’s Art Colony (1946–1953),” Mobile Museum of Art, 2006 DAC Foundation, Wetumpka, Alabama

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Shell Road Post Office, Coden

DAC FOUNDATION  |  Gift of Mobile Museum of Art c. 1950 | CAM-2022.AW.0004 |  Watercolor on Paper, 23 x 27 inches Included in the following exhibitions: “Art in Embassies,” in Bucharest, Romania, 2011; “The Bayou Painters: South Alabama’s Art Colony (1946–1953),” Mobile Museum of Art, 2006; Published in the February

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Moonlight on Pickle Hill

DAC FOUNDATION  |  Gift of Mobile Museum of Art c. 1945 | CAM-2022.AW.0001 |  Oil On Canvas, 29.75 x 23.75 inches This dreamlike example of Moon’s work demonstrates his signature style of distorted realism. This painting was included in the 2004 traveling exhibition titled “Tales from the Easel: American Narrative

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Elmore County Landscape II

DAC FOUNDATION  |  From the collection of Mark Andrew Harris 1942  |  JKF-2022.AW.0001  |  Watercolor on Board, 11 x 16 inches This painting was acquired from a Birmingham family with a close relationship with DAC artist Arthur Stewart. DAC Foundation, Wetumpka, Alabama

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Elmore County Landscape I

DAC FOUNDATION  |  From the collection of Mark Andrew Harris 1942  |  JKF-2022.AW.0001  |  Watercolor on Board, 11 x 16.5 inches This painting was acquired from a Birmingham family with a close relationship with DAC artist Arthur Stewart. DAC Foundation, Wetumpka, Alabama

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Southern Pine Tree

DAC FOUNDATION  |  Gift of Martha Moon Kracke 1944 |  CAM-2021.AW.0025  |  Oil On Panel, 16 x 12 inches This piece by Moon was his FIRST PAINTING created using his daughter Martha’s oil paint set. DAC Foundation, Wetumpka, Alabama

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