Frank Montague Moore

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Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967) was a painter, businessman, and museum director born in England. He was the first director of the Honolulu Museum of Art.

Moore studied at the Liverpool Art School and the Royal Institute, and later studied with Henry Ward Ranger in the United States. In 1910, he moved from New York City to Hawaii to work as a purchasing agent for Hawaii Plantations. He became the museum’s first director in 1924 but resigned in 1927, just before the museum opened.

In 1928 he moved to California, where he painted 41 murals known as the Picture Bridge for the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, along with many landscape paintings. Moore died on March 5, 1967, in Carmel, California. His works are held in public collections such as the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Honolulu Museum of Art.