ARTnews in Brief: Ed Moses Estate to Kohn Gallery

The Los Angeles-based enterprise Kohn Gallery has added to its roster the estate of Ed Moses, an L.A. painter who died last year. The gallery will include works by Moses in a group presentation in its booth at Art Basel Miami Beach in December. Best known for his abstract works, Moses was a prominent figure in the West Coast art scene during the postwar era. He had his first solo exhibition at the storied Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1958, where befriended artists Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, and others. Moses’s work is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Whitney Museum in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and other institutions. William Turner Gallery in Los Angeles will also continue to work with the artist’s estate. Gallery founder Michael Kohn said in a statement, “As his paintings are put into context with contemporary art since 1960, Ed Moses will further emerge as one of the leading painters of his generation and beyond.”