Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967) was a painter and the first director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts.[1] He was born November 24, 1877 in Taunton, England, and studied at the Liverpool Art School and the Royal Institute. He immigrated to the United States and took additional painting lessons from Henry Ward Ranger. In 1910, he moved from New York City to Hawaii, where he worked as a purchasing agent for Hawaii Plantations.[2] He became the first director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts in 1924, but resigned in 1927, shortly before the museum opened.[3] In 1928, he left Hawaii for California, where he painted 41 murals for the Huntington Hotel and many easel paintings of California landscapes. Moore died in Carmel, California on March 5, 1967.[4]
The Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Honolulu Academy of Arts are among the public collections holding paintings by Frank Montague Moore.[5]