John Lysaght Moore (28 March 1897 – 8 June 1965) was a New Zealand painter, printmaker, weaver and knitter. His work is in the collections of the

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, the

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and the

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Biography

Moore was born in

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in 1897 to Francis Edward Moore and his wife Sophia Augusta Lysaght. One of his paternal great-grandfathers was

Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch Charles William Henry Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch and 6th Duke of Queensberry, KT (24 May 1772 – 20 April 1819), styled Earl of Dalkeith until 1812, was a British landowner, amateur cricketer and Tory politician. Background and educ ...

. He was the nephew of Admiral Sir Arthur Moore and the New Zealand cricketer

Henry Moore Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract art, abstract monumental Bronze sculpture, bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moore ...

. He was a cousin of Averil Lysaght and Mary Watt. Moore moved with his mother to

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, then to

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. He served overseas in the New Zealand Medical Corps during

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. He studied art in Wellington with D. K. Richmond and H. L. Richardson, then studied in Europe, attending

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, London School of Art, and the British Academy in Rome from 1923 to 1927. After the

1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, also known as the Napier earthquake, occurred in New Zealand at 10:47am on 3 February, killing 256,The exact number of deaths varies according to different sources; the ''New Zealand Listener'' article cited be ...

, Moore and another Hawke's Bay artist donated between 60 and 70 watercolours of local scenery to be sold in aid of earthquake relief. When the Auckland Society of Arts held an exhibition of his watercolour landscapes in 1935, the ''

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'' commented: "He prefers to interpret nature in her more sombre moods, and his pictures for the most part are subdued in colour, soft greens, greys and blues predominating, with warm brown occasionally used in the foregrounds." Moore bought a house in York Bay in

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in 1937, but did not move from Havelock North until 1947, after which he lived in York Bay with his older sister Evelyn.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, John Lysaght 1897 births 1965 deaths Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London People from Hāwera New Zealand artists New Zealand printmakers New Zealand weavers 20th-century New Zealand male artists New Zealand military personnel of World War I People from Lower Hutt People from Havelock North Lysaght family