Artist Hubert Moshett dies at 101
Stabroek News
January 8, 2003
Hubert Moshett, a celebrated artist famous for paintings, which captured Guyanese life in gentler times, has died aged 101.
A press release from the National Gallery said Moshett had passed away at his home in Campbellville late on Sunday after a brief illness.
The Gallery stated that “Moshett will be remembered for his evocative and expert paintings of Guyanese life, in particular of Georgetown and his environs, with titles such as “Village Evening”, “Approach to East Bank Highway”, “Holiday on the Beach” and “Breezy Day”, recording gentler, more placid times and places in Guyana.”
According to the release Moshett, like his near-contemporary and childhood friend, E.R Burrowes played a part in the first association of Guyanese artists in the 20th century, the British Guiana Arts and Craft Society, and was later a committee member, then secretary of the short-lived Guyana Art Association in 1966.
He had a full time career as a graphic artist working from 1944 to 1962 at the newly established British Guiana Lithographic Company eventually becoming co-director and chief artist of the company’s art department.
A series of 24 paintings illustrating the various industries of Guyana, which he created with fellow director Reginald Phang, still hangs at the Banks DIH No 1 Bar, Stabroek.
Moshett leaves to mourn his wife Winifred, two sons and grandchildren.
