In "Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City" (1946), in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection, she depicts herself—at age 80—about to leave on her first trip to New York City to see her ...

Eagle Bridge, N. Y. (pop. 300) nestles on the hard western slope of Vermont's Green Mountains just where they roll over the New York border. There 13 years ago Farmer Thomas Solomon Moses died, ...

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.

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 ...

Grandma Moses (1860–1961), born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenwich, New York, was an American folk artist who began painting in her seventies. Known for her nostalgic and detailed depictions of ...

THE sweet (some might say too sweet) art of Grandma Moses, now featured in a traveling exhibition making a 2 1/2-month pit stop at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, is nostalgia twice ...

She was self-taught, and painted in a primitive style, depicting things she was familiar with, focusing on peaceful scenes, rural life, and farm work. In 1938, art collector Louis Caldor bought ...

Vienna’s tiny Neue Galerie was bright last week with crude, cheery pictures of U.S. farm life, New York State style. The paintings were the work of 89-year-old “Primitive” Grandma Moses ...

Mary Vinson, the artist and author born without a name, didn't learn how to read or write until she was in her 50s.

Grandma Moses changed ideas about art ... Grandma Moses painted memories of hard work and simple pleasures from her youth with a strong sense of the different colors of the seasons.

America’s most celebrated folk artist comes to the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento as the Grandma Moses exhibition makes its only West Coast stop, now through Jan. 6. The museum, which is at 216 O St ...

In a marvelous match of style and content, Moses's (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) sprightly folk-art oil paintings make this a "must have" Mother Continue reading » ...