Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961), known to the nation as Grandma Moses, remains one of the most recognized and beloved American painters. Although she did not paint until 1927, at age 67 ...

Her work sold for as much as $3,000 a piece and hung in the homes of some of the art world’s most famous collectors. An estimated 48 million Grandma Moses Christmas cards had been sold in the U ...

Folks around Eagle Bridge never paid much attention to Grandma Moses’ paintings ... There Inventor Caldor, who was also an art lover, saw one of Mrs. Moses’ pictures standing on a counter ...

How did the paintings of an elderly farm woman with no artistic training become widely popular with ordinary people and widely respected by art critics? Grandma Moses benefited from changing ideas ...

or participating in art fairs or any of those more outward-looking commercial activities.” The foundation, however, continue to represent Grandma Moses, as it has since her first show in 1940 ...

Grandma Moses, Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City, 1946, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the Kallir Family in memory of Otto Kallir, 2016.51 ...

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 ...

BENNINGTON, Vt. — Grandma Moses has a branding problem. Some critics invoke her name derisively, categorizing her alongside mom, baseball, and apple pie. Art, you know, isn’t supposed to be ...

Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host the exhibition, “Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation,” from January 27 through April 22. Organized by the Fenimore Art Museum in ...