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Gary Moss

A former Marine combat artist, Gary Moss's love of Minnesota and the outdoors comes through in his photorealistic paintings.

This video was originally produced for Twin Cities PBS and MN Original in November 2013.

When I was in art school, our dean of students was re-activated into the Marine Corps to help run the combat art program. Then I got drafted.

Artistic rendering of a mortar base elevated in the mountains; a cannon in the middle of a rounded wall of corrugated steel and sandbags.

Courtesy of Art Collection, National Museum of the Marine Corps, Triangle, Virginia.

Biographical Details

Primary Location During Vietnam: Vietnam Vietnam location marker

Story Subject: Military Service

Military Branch: U.S. Marine Corps

Unit: Marine Corps Combat Art Program

Story Themes: Art, Combat Art, Draft, MN Original, Watch

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