Dan Mooney

Dan Mooney

Dan Mooney has been playing with pens and gold for over 40 years and had a two-month-long one-man show at the Boston World Trade Center, Fidelity Art Space. Dan painted a series of watercolor botanicals that were featured in a one-man show at Jobi Gallery, Truro, Massachusetts. Dan was also commissioned by the Boston Tea Party Museum for a custom designed 1773 map of Boston in pen and ink, watercolor, and an abundance of 24k gold leaf. Dan re-created a collection of antique maps of Boston, Cape Cod, and the Islands in full color and also full of 24k gold that is currently on exhibit in the Chart Room of the Boston Harbor Distillery. His original piece, “Cape Coderata,” was part of a two-month exhibit at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Boston, Massachusetts. Dan is also calligrapher and letter artist for “Gilded Age Greetings” with IAMPETH Master Penman Rosemary Buczek. Dan’s list of clients include Sam Alfano Master Engraver, The Coca-Cola Company, MIT (Sloan Award), Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital, Wisconsin School of Medicine, New York Psychotherapy Association, Teledyne, Simmons College, Future Affairs Productions, The Historical Society of Early American Decoration, Inc. and numerous others. Dan lives in Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, and is Vice President of Colonial Land Surveying Co., Inc., Past-President of Masscribes, Inc. (New England Calligrapher’s Guild) and past President of Colonial Calli-Graphics, L.L.C. Dan’s work has been published in Letter Arts Review and Bound and Lettered. His colorful published work “Your God” was included in the beautiful coffee table book Nice Rendition: Cheryl Wheeler’s Lyrics in Calligraphy. Dan received further intercontinental fame with a commission in 2017 to create nine intricate maps for the book With Their Bare Hands written by Gene Fax. scribedan.com