Walter L. Mosley
b. 1960 Hattisburg, MS
   Walter started drawing at three and was always "the class artist" in grade school. In high school he studied "Commercial Art" and worked at Six Flags Amusement Park doing portraits. In his early twenties, Walter studied portraiture with Bob Gerbracht in San Jose, California for a year and a half and subsequently graducated from Fine Art at San Jose State University with a BA. While there he met Maynard Stewart who had studied with Frank Vincent Dumond at the Art Students League of New York. Upon graduation, Walter moved to New York to attend the Art Students League and studied with Frank Mason for a period of about 10 years. Like Mr. Stewart, Mr. Mason had been a Dumond student and took over teaching duties from Mr. Dumuond.
Desiring to get back to figure painting and study with his mentor once again, Walter recently returned to the League but after two months Mr. Mason retired and soon after passed away. Walter was subsequenlty asked to monitor the class where he is currently studying with Thomas Torak.
Walter finds inspiration in the Old Masters and Impressionists: Velazquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Sargent, Sorolla, Child Hassam, Willard Metcalf and Fantin LaTour.

Walter is an American Artists Professional League Fellow where he has shown repeatedly as well as at the "Salon International" at the Greenhouse Gallery of Art in San Antonio, TX, and the Audubon Artists, NYC. Life Member of the Art Students League of New York.