| Anton Bernard Mosman | |
| Birth Date: | 11 September 1886 |
| Birth Place: | Carroll, Iowa, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Carroll, Iowa, U.S. |
| Resting Place: | Mount Olivet Cemetery Carroll, Iowa, U.S. |
| Children: | Freda Barbara (Stevens) Mosman (1914-1993) Grace Josephine (Darveaux) Mosman (1920–1975) Louis Paul Mosman (1923-2017) Harriet Mosman (1927-1928) |
| Spouses: | Barbara Mary Wille (1886-1954) and Margaret Nees (1896-1989) |
| Signature: | A._B._Mosman_signature.jpg |
Tony Bernard Mosman (born Anton Bernard Mosman) (1886-1985) was an American artist from Carroll, Iowa, United States. He produced landscape, still-life, and portrait paintings in oil, watercolor, pastel and acrylic. He was a published poet in the Atlantic Monthly[1] and has also written a novel and a series of short stories.[1]
Mosman was born in 1886 in Carroll, Iowa, to Antonius Albertus Mosman (1856-1928) and Helena “Lena” Pittmann (or Puttmann)(1863-1956).[2] He was one of eight children.[3] He married Barbara Mary Wille (1886-1954) on June 3, 1913. He married a second time, on June 14, 1958, to Margaret Nees (1896-1989). He served as a Private of the National Guard in Carroll for years.[4] Mosman and Barbara had four children: Freda Barbara (Mosman) Stevens (1914-1993), Grace Josephine (Mosman) Darveaux (1920-1975), Louis Paul Mosman (1923-2017) and Harriet Mosman (1927-1928).
Mosman owned and operated the Carroll Paint Shop for thirty years,[5] [6] but he considered that being an artist was his true profession.[7] As a "widely recognized Western Iowa artist"[8] he twice exhibited his paintings in Omaha, Nebraska at the Jocelyn Memorial Art Museum.[9] [10] [11] He also exhibited art at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, and at art centers of: Sioux City, Iowa;[12] Des Moines, Iowa; Denver, Iowa; Ames, Iowa;[13] and Fort Dodge, Iowa.
In 1938, after submitting works to a national contest judged by Eleanor Roosevelt, he was asked to donate the paintings to a traveling exhibition that would go all over the country.[14] He was appointed the Carroll committeeman for an art exhibit at Cornell College.[15] [16] In 1965, he exhibited 41 paintings in the Carroll County State Bank. and in the Carroll Public Library in 1980.[17] It was reported in 1965 that he had "over 1,000 paintings to his credit and some have brought as much as $150 at exhibitions." He sold about 30 of his paintings in 1979 in Sarasota and Tampa, Florida; Tucson, Arizona; San Francisco, California; and New York, New York.
He died of a stroke on August 16, 1985, at Carroll, Iowa and is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Carroll, Iowa.[18]