Curtis Moffat

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Curtis Moffat (1887-1949) was an abstract photographer, color still life and society portraitist. At times he collaborated with Man Ray.

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[edit] Biography

Curtis Moffat was born in New York in 1887 and died 1949 in his home in Martha's Vineyard[1]. He studied in New York and Paris where he met and collaborated with Man Ray. 1916 he married Iris Tree, an English actress and poet and the daughter of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in New York. In 1925 he opened a gallery and interior design studio in London, Fitzroy Square selling modernist furniture and African sculpture.

Ivan Moffat[2] is the son of Curtis Moffat and Iris Tree.

[edit] Art

Besides his work as a society portraitist he experimented with Photograms or Rayographs and three-color-processes.

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