Moore, John L. (African-American/Cleveland/NYC, b.1939), Untitled Abstract, undated, oil and mixed media on paper, signed lower right, sheet 10.25 x 12 inches, floated in a frame 21 x 24.5 inches. Moore was born in Cleveland, Ohio and now resides in Brooklyn, New York. The Cleveland Museum became important to his development as he began taking art lessons there as a junior-high age student. In 1975 Moore to a teaching position at the Cleveland Museum of Art and at the time was one of the few African Americans employed by a major American museum. In 1983 Moore had his first one-person exhibition at the Alternative Museum in New York City with prompted his move there with his family in 1985. The concept of abstraction started when he was first airborne serving in the army. Prior to the military he had never been in an airplane. As a paratrooper ; from the sky ; he became fascinated by the patterns of the landscape. Its abstraction that rapidly became a reality as one floated closer to the earth. Since that time his paintings on canvas, and paper have become improvisational, mostly geometric shapes of clusters of ovals, triangles, and squares involving a process of painting, scraping, re painting, and blending colors of a restricted palette of shades of black, gray, white, red, and blue. The work of John L. Moore can be found in the permanent collections of museums around the globe including ; The Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Canton Museum of Art, The Columbus Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA , The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY , The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Queens Museum of Art. In seemingly good condition, unexamined outside of the frame. Merchandise will be packed and transported by the purchaser at their own risk and expense. A list of recommended shippers is on our website: https://www.conceptgallery.com/auctions/shipping/ .