Tony Bernard Mosman

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).[2] He served as a Private of the National Guard in Carroll for 1 1/2 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,[2][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.[2]

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.[13] 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."[13] He sold about 30 of his paintings in 1979 in Sarasota and Tampa, Florida; Tucson, Arizona; San Francisco, California; and New York, New York.[1]

He died of a stroke on August 16, 1985 at Carroll, Iowa and is buried at Mt. Olivet cemetery, Carroll, Iowa.[8][18]