March 27, 1923 ~ September 18, 2011
In September of last year, we in Carmel-by-the-Sea lost one of our greatest icons, Malcolm Moran. Malcolm's collectors include: Mr. Robert Kennedy, John Glenn, Dave Brubeck, Bing Crosby, Audrey Hepburn, Leonard Firestone, Harry Belafonte, Kim Novak, Christian DeGuigne, and Clint Eastwood. Malcolm was personally invited to the White House for a one-man Command Performance under President Gerald Ford. Malcolm's work is now available exclusively thorugh Mountainsong Galleries.
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CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA - Sculptor Malcolm Moran passed away on September 18, 2011 at high noon at the age of 88. He was born with a twin brother into a Seattle pioneering family who later settled on Orcas Island in Washington. He studied at the Cornish Art Institute and University of Washington in Seattle, Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, Kobe University in Japan, and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Malcolm started his career as a designer in advanced styling concepts for General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, and Boeing in the 1950s and was appointed the art director of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. Malcolm then moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1963 and opened Gallery Carmel, which was a stage for his cast of thousands. He was also a partner in the Hog's Breath restaurant and had his home and gallery memorialized in the movie "Play Misty for Me". One of Malcolm's greatest honors was being invited by President Ford and his wife, Betty to have a showing of his art at the White House.
In addition to Malcolm's art career, he was also a proud member of the military beginning with the Merchant Marines Academy in California and later serving in the Army as a First Lieutenant during WWII.
A close friend once described Malcolm as living his life striving to do the unexpected; keeping everything on a delicate balance of suspense with one never knowing in what direction his creative genius would go next.
