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Anton “Tony” Bernard Mosman (1886-1985) was an artist of Carroll, Iowa, USA. He produced beautiful landscape, still-life, and portrait oil paintings. He signed his paintings “A. B. Mosman”.

Background: Tony was born 11 September 1886 in Carroll, Iowa to Anton Augustus Mosman and Helena “Lena” Pittman (or Puttmann). He was the second or third of eight children (one sister’s birth date remains undetermined.) He married Barbara Mary Wille (1886-1954) on 3 Jun 1913 and Margaret Nees (1896-1989) on 14 Jun 1958. Tony and Barbara had 4 children: Freda Barbara (Stevens) Mosman (1914-?), Grace Josephine (Darveaux) Mosman (1920-1975), Louis Paul Mosman (1923-) and Harriet Mosman (1927-1928).

Tony considered being an artist was his profession, but he also owned and operated the Carroll Paint Shop for thirty years. As a widely recognized artist in western Iowa, he exhibited his paintings in: Omaha, Nebraska at the Jocelyn Art Museum and at art centers of; Des Moines, Iowa; Sioux City, Iowa; and Fort Dodge, Iowa.1 He died of a stroke 16 August 1985 at Carroll, Iowa.