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Grandma Moses has other distractions: eleven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. “When I had my children and grandchildren,” she remembers, “I was about as busy as they were.
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 ...
Moses became one of America’s most-loved painters. 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 ...
Once a hot spot for Americana, New York’s Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory has recently become known for the breadth of its offerings.
Hildegard Bachert, who helped promote artists including Gustav Klimt and Grandma Moses, in 1968. (Galerie St. Etienne) ...
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.
Last week a book of her pictures (Grandma Moses, American Primitive, Doubleday; $6) was re-issued with an introduction by Literary Rustic Louis Bromfield, who compared her with Peter Bruegel.
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 ...
Art Review ‘Grandma Moses: American Modern’ Review: An Icon as You’ve Never Seen Her An exhibition enhances our understanding of the well-known but problematic autodidact by showing her ...
Almanac: Grandma Moses And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: December 13th, 1961, 54 years ago today ... the day the painter Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as "Grandma Moses," died ...