Born 1926 in Long Beach USA Ed Moses was a central figure in the postwar West Coast art movement based in Los Angeles.

At the age of seventeen Moses enlisted into the Navy serving as a medical corps man during World War II. After the war Moses studied art at UCLA and the University of Oregon, on finishing his studies he moved to New York where he was heavily influenced by  the Abstract Expressionists Willem de Kooning Franz Kline and Mark Rothko before returning to California in 1960. 

In California Moses helped create an independent group of artists who were interested in pushing the boundaries of art both technically and conceptually.

Moses had always been an experimenter, working in various different mediums he took great joy in creating new non representational works having an almost childlike love of applying paint to canvas. Using a variety of techniques, such as rollers (as with this work) pipes, chain and other tools not usually associated with art Moses would experiment often allowing artworks to mutate from one idea to another whilst testing and questioning the techniques he was using.

Moses is credited with helping to create the ‘Cool school’ of art  In Los Angeles in 1960’s other artists Included Ed Rusha, Walter Hopps and Larry Bell. Having been amongst the first generation to exhibit at the Legendury Ferus gallery in LA Moses has gone on to exhibit worldwide and is now held in many prominent collections including: 

The Museum of modern Art New York 

San Francisco Museum of modern Art 

Hammer Museum

Los Angeles County Museum of Art 

Corcoran Gallery of Art 

Whitney Museum of American Art