12 Facts About Eudorah Moore

Eudorah Moore was an American curator and patron of the arts.

Eudorah Moore is regarded as revolutionizing California design and for her advocacy of craft as an art form.

Eudorah Moore promoted the New Craftsman Movement, which fostered the contributions of people working in the crafts, developed links between craftspeople and manufacturers, and railed against the dehumanizing effects of the industrial revolution which, in the context of made objects, she saw as destructive to individual effort and expression as it corporatized the creative act.

Eudorah Moore's father ran the specialist mining and machinery concern Morse Brothers Machinery Company, and her mother was the daughter of Colorado mining pioneer Albert Eugene Reynolds.

Eudorah Moore was the sister of businessman and philanthropist Albert Reynolds Morse.

Eudorah Moore produced California Design shows for the museum in 1962,1965,1968, and 1971 and related exhibitions in 1974 and 1976 at other venues.

Eudorah Moore was curator of design of the museum from 1962 to 1974, when the Pasadena Art Museum closed and became the Norton Simon Museum.

Eudorah Moore conceived Craftsman Lifestyle: The Gentle Revolution, written by Olivia Emery, and was the moving force behind a review of contemporary American design titled Design USA.

From 1978 to 1981 Eudorah Moore served as crafts coordinator at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Eudorah Moore saw crafts and design as essential components in the lives of everyone and in all her initiatives, she sought to place handmade goods in the greater perspective of society.

Eudorah Moore was recognized many times over for her tireless promotion of the arts both in California and across the nation.

Eudorah Moore was made an Honorary College of Fellows member of the American Craft Council in 1980.