Constructed around 1925 above the garage and tool shed area at the Moseley Homestead, the “Owl’s Junction” served as the living quarters and studio, with a workshop below for Karl Moseley, the artist son of Julia Daniels Moseley and Charles Scott Moseley. Later, a shed roof carport was added to the east side of the workshop.
Karl returned to the Florida homestead from New York in the mid-1920s during the Great Depression. He worked there for a federal arts project, creating unique ink drawings for the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), with many pieces illustrating “the historical phases of rural life around Tampa.” In 1937, thirty of his works were included in a W.P.A. exhibition at the Fine Arts Building at the Florida State Fair Grounds in Tampa. The following year, a Florida Artists Series titled “A Survey of Activity in Retrospect” toured the state’s Federal Art Galleries.
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