Background
Mora, Joseph Jacinto was born on October 22, 1876 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Son of Domingo and Laura (Gaillard) Mora.
Mora, Joseph Jacinto was born on October 22, 1876 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Son of Domingo and Laura (Gaillard) Mora.
Came to the United States in childhood. Educated Allston (Massachusetts). Graduate Pingry Academy, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1894.
Studied art at Art Students’ League, and Chase’s School, New York, and Cowles Art School, Boston.
Employed as artist for Boston Traveler, 1897. Then by Boston Herald until 1900. Left newspaper work to get out books for Dana, Estes & Company.
Traveled in West and Southwest, making ethnological studies of Hopi and Navajo Indians, 1903-1907.
Member Jury Award, Panama Exposition, 1915. Author and Illustrator: The Animals of Æsop, 1900.
Wrote “Animaldom” in Boston Sunday Herald and its Syndicate associates, 1907. Editor and Illustrator: Reynard the Fox, 1901.
Andersen’s Fairy Tales, 1902.
Illustrator: Laura East. Richards’ Hurdy Gurdy, 1902. Animal Football Calendar for 1903. Executed monument to “Cervantes,” Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
8 heroic figures, Realty Syndicate Building, Los Los Angeles
Architectural sculpture for Portland (Oregon) Post Office and Court House. Archbishop Reardon Memorial, Knights of Columbus Hall, and Bret Harte Memorial, Bohemian Club, San Francisco.
Doughboy monument, San Rafael, California. Serra Sarcophagus, San Carlos Mission, Carmel, California.
Heroic pediment, San Francisco Stock Exchange.
Heroic figures, Scottish Rite Temple, San Jose, California. Heroic pediment group, Don Lee Building, San Francisco, and Pacific Mutual Building, Los Los Angeles Federal 50 cent piece, California Diamond Jubilee.
4 heroic bronzes for Marland Estate, Ponca City, Oklahoma.
Stone sculptural work for home of Earle C. Anthony, Los Los Angeles Sculpture and memorial fountain, Courthouse, Salinas, California.
Sculpture for Auditorium, King City, California. Murals for Hotel Canterbury, San Francisco.
Murals for Fable Room, Drake-Wiltshire Hotel, San Francisco.
100 foot diorama, “The Portola Expedition,” Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. 13 biographical dioramas of Will Rogers, Will Rogers Memorial, Claremore, Oklahoma. Diorama for Sutter’s Fort History Museum, Sacramento.
Triple equestrian group (half life) “Louisiana Novia,” Hotel Delegate Monte, California Wrote, illustrated Trail Dust and Saddle Leather.
Californios, 1947.
Member Jury Award, Panama Exposition, 1915. Member National Sculpture Society Enlisted in the United States Army, 1918, F.A.C.O.T.S., Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. Clubs: Bohemian, Family.
Married Grace Alma Needham, January 6, 1907. Children: Joseph Needham, Grace Patricia.