Homestake Foundry

This 1985 image by Barry Moser titled "Homestake Foundry" measures 4 x 7 inches, in an edition of 350 and is pencil signed by the artist on the lower margin. This is a series of 25 images portraying gold mining activities from America, Africa and Australia. Moser, from Tennessee, became a graphic artist and printmaker, studying under Leonard Baskin and Jack Coughlin. In 1990 he became the "head of studio art" at the Rhode Island School of Design. His prints have been exhibited at the Berkshire Museum, the Los Angeles National Print Show and the Library of Congress National Print Exhibit. Moser states in his description of these images that it is a "consumate dilemma" between the mining and the owning of gold, the high price politically, physically and spiritually that these men and their families paid for their dreams of a better life.