Remembering

Thinking about you Dad. You're in just about everything I see. You'd love the Christmas tree this year — I'm passing down all of your tips on how to make the tree beautiful; setting the lights and glass balls deep into the branches. I'm keeping the birds (and squirrels) well-fed on cracked corn and suet. You'd love the red-bellied woodpecker who has taken up residence; he's beautiful. Nothing is the same without you, but I'm doing my best to remember you in all the best ways possible and make you proud.

At work (posed) on a golf scape in his Farmington studio.

Diana Turasi, Dad, and Coach Auriema, with his painting of Turasi donated to UConn.

At a Society of Illustrator's exhibition with my mom, his surrealist golf series, commissioned by Sports Illustrated is in the background.

Donald F. Moss

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx?n=donald-francis-moss&pid=142986835

Donald Francis Moss, husband of Virginia ("Sally") Hardesty Moss, of Farmington, Connecticut, died peacefully Tuesday (May 18) at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He was 90. Born January 20, 1920 in Somerville, Massachusetts, he had a rare and wonderful life. In addition to his wife of more than 60 years, Moss is survived by his son, Donald Hardesty Moss and his wife, Susan Reeder Moss, of West Hartford, CT; his daughter, Elisabeth Prescott Moss, and her partner, Kathleen Zecchin, of Farmington; and his daughter, Margaret Moss Painter, and her husband, Robert W. Painter Jr., of Avon, CT. He is also survived by five grandchildren, William and Samuel Moss, Kathryn, Alexander, and James DeGraaf. He also leaves his son-in-law, Christian DeGraaf of New Hartford, CT; brother-in-law, Kurt Tauber of Williamstown, Massachusetts; brother-in-law Clifton Hardesty of Venice, Florida; as well as several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his three sisters. Moss was a noted and celebrated illustrator, as well as a fine artist, and one of the last surviving veterans of the First Marine Division's Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II.

August 9, 1965 Sports Illustrated

What a charmed life we led! I didn't know what we were doing, floating on this thing out in the bay, but it was fun anyway. Dad had a genius for making things happen.

The link to the story on the house is on the right.

NY Times obituary, print edition, Sunday & Monday, May 31, 2010

A fitting tribute. It makes me incredibly sad and incredibly proud at the same time.

Interesting that they used this painting in the print edition. I mentioned to Niko Koppel that this was one of my favorites. (I whited out the caption, because it was incorrect.)

Seven of the eleven covers Dad did for Sports Illustrated, from a search on SI's website.