A Good Day’s Work” repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, ...

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 ...

Anyone remotely interested in American folk art or cottagecore style is familiar with the name Grandma Moses. Born in 1860, Anna Mary Robertson Moses didn’t start painting until her late 70s ...

I went to the Grandma Moses Museum [in Bennington, Vt.], and I just started painting in that style. I've done more impressionistic work and landscapes, but I always come back to folk art." ...

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 ...

“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, 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.

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 ...

I went to the Grandma Moses Museum [in Bennington, Vt.], and I just started painting in that style. I've done more impressionistic work and landscapes, but I always come back to folk art." ...