F. Luis Mora

Son of Domingo Mora, Spanish sculptor, F. Luis Mora was born in Uruguay and received his early education in Perth Amboy, New York and Boston. He studied art at the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and at the New York Art Students League. Starting his professional career at seventeen as an illustrator, he was active for nearly five decades in portraiture, water color, etching, and mural painting. A characteristic illustration—now in the National Arts Club—shows Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson confabbing on a Washington Square bench. The irony, charm, and gayety of his nature appear in such work as the mural decorations, painted three years ago, for the bar of the Town Hall Club in which he touched lightly upon episodes in the city’s history. In 1933 he exhibited a painting of himself and his wife as he thought they would look in 1953. He received many art prizes and honors and is represented in the permanent collections of museums and in public buildings from New England to California.

Geoffrey Parsons
1940 Century Memorials