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, Prattville, Alabama
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, Prattville, Alabama
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
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
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, Prattville, Alabama
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, Prattville, Alabama
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, Prattville, Alabama
Copper Hill
DAC FOUNDATION | Gift of Martha Moon Kracke 1946 | CAM-2021.AW.0024 | Oil On Canvas, 16 x 20 inches This painting by Moon was included in a 28-piece, one-man show at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in December 1946. DAC Foundation, Prattville, Alabama
Ginning Season
DAC FOUNDATION | Gift of Martha Moon Kracke n.d. | CAM-2021.AW.0023 | Watercolor on Paper, 18 x 23.75 inches This painting is not dated but we know it is a very early watercolor by Moon. We also have a study sketch for the painting. DAC Foundation, Prattville, Alabama
Composition In Yellow
DAC FOUNDATION | Gift of Martha Moon Kracke n.d. | CAM-2021.AW.0021 | Watercolor on Paper, 15 x 22 inches This is an example of one of Moon’s later abstract works. DAC Foundation, Prattville, Alabama