William H. Mosby

Bill Mosby (born William Harry Mosby on 24 January 1898, Sioux City, Iowa) was a portrait player and an important American college of fine arts.

William H Mosby was a professor of art at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, a painter, and illustrator.

Mosby grew going on in Iowa. After serving in the United States Army in War World I, he attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1924, he went to Europe and enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium. In Europe, he scholarly classical technique which he innovative shared taking into consideration his students at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He taught there from 1930 until his death in 1964 as soon as the exception of a scholarship he was awarded at The National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium and to service in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

An exceptional painter, he exhibited similar to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1934 and 1936. He plus did illustration function for such companies as Mars Candy, Goodrich Tires and Chrysler. A mural by Mosby is in the St Matthew's Episcopal Church in Chicago.

Students Include : Richard Schmid, Gil Elvgren, Ted Smuskiewcz, Bill Parks, Howard Terpning, James J. Ingwersen and others.

Teacher: Charles Hermans and Students of Louis Gallait