A Good Day’s Work” repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved painted recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive ...

SHELBURNE, Vt. — The Grandma Moses story reads a lot like an artist’s fairy tale. In 1938, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, a 78-year-old grandmother living on a farm in upstate New York, hung a few ...

Grandma Moses—born Sept. 7, 1860—always enjoyed art, but she didn't launch her career until late in her life, for a number of reasons The American folk painter was born Sept. 7, 1860 Sign Up ...

Learn about American folk artist, Grandma Moses. Anna Mary Robert Moses was born in 1860 in Greenwich, New York. Having started as a child, she began painting in earnest in her late 70s.

“American Sampler: Grandma Moses and the Handicraft Tradition” opens this weekend at the Dayton Art Institute and offers a unique perspective on the work of the famous self-taught folk artist ...

Grandma Moses — her real name was Anna Mary Robertson Moses — was brought to Kallir’s attention by Louis Caldor, an amateur collector who had stumbled on a sampling of her bucolic folk art ...

Grandma Moses, John Kane and Horace Pippin are just some of the figures in this exhibition who redefined what it meant to be an artist—and what was American about American art.

Jan Woodcock knew his grandmother and her sister had been reared by their aunt, Grandma Moses. He knew that his own mother regarded the revered American folk artist as, yes, a grandma.

Born locally, living locally, and working locally, mostly in her garden, Heisig likens herself to Grandma Moses, the American folk artist who achieved artistic success despite not starting to ...