{{short description|American painter (1905–1989)}} '''Loren Norman Mozley''' (October 2, 1905 – September 22, 1989) was an artist of the American Southwest. He is known for his New Deal artwork post office mural in Albuquerque, New Mexico that depicts the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.<ref name=":0">No title [Notable murals of Albuquerque], ''Albuquerque: The Magazine.'' Mar2016, Vol. 12 Issue 10, p47-57.</ref> He has other New Deal commissions in Clinton, Oklahoma and Alvin, Texas.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Loren Mozley New Deal Projects |url=https://livingnewdeal.org/artists/loren-mozley/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=Living New Deal (UC Berkeley Dept of Geography) |language=en-US}}</ref> His painting ''Rocks and Cypresses'' is in Huntington Gallery at the University of Texas.<ref name=":1">Art Professor Loren Mozley Dead at 83, Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Texas · Tuesday, September 26, 1989, page b4</ref> He had a retrospective there in 1978; most of the works shown were landscapes of Mexico, New Mexico and central Texas.<ref>"Art This Week," Austin American-Statesman, February 19, 1978, page 27.</ref> In 2013, the Dallas Museum of Art hosted a show of his work called ''Loren Mozley: Structural Integrity.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Art |first=Dallas Museum of |date=2013-02-04 |title=Loren Mozley: Structural Integrity |url=https://blog.dma.org/2013/02/04/loren-mozley-structural-integrity/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=Dallas Museum of Art Uncrated |language=en-US}}</ref>
He also taught art in Taos, New Mexixo,<ref name=":0" /> and once in August 1935 gave John Marin a lift from New York back to New Mexico.<ref>Blumenshein's Taos Romance Traced, The Taos News, April 20, 1978, page 15.</ref> Along with Ward Lockwood he helped found the art department at the University of Texas in 1938.<ref name=":1" /> He was an expert in Latin American art and also taught at the University of Southern California and National University in Mexico City.<ref>Loren Mozley Will Lecture at Pan American Round Table, The Austin American Austin, Texas · Sunday, April 12, 1953, page C-16</ref>
A portrait ''of'' Loren Mozley by the artist Andrew Dasburg is in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Loren Mozley |url=https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3537/loren-mozley;jsessionid=3144E9516B76AABCEA02CF11D9AFD2FA |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=art.nelson-atkins.org |language=en}}</ref>
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== Further reading == Mozley L. University of Texas at Austin & Valley House Gallery. (1977). Loren mozley : a retrospective. University Art Museum University of Texas at Austin. OCLC 22519294
==External links== * {{cite web| author=Kendall Curlee | title=Mozley, Loren Norman | work=Handbook of Texas Online | access-date=2023-03-05 | date=2020-11-20 | url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/mozley-loren-norman | publisher= Texas State Historical Association}} * [https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/antiques-roadshow/clip/antiques-roadshow-appraisal-1947-loren-mozley-aspens-oil Antiques Roadshow Appraisal: 1947 Loren Mozley "Aspens" Oil]
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