Grandma Moses, the renowned 20th-century American folk artist known for paintings of country life, would have turned 156 on Wednesday. The artist graced the cover of the Dec. 28, 1953, issue of ...

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 ...

In the sunny front room of a trim ranch house in Upper New York State, a sprightly little old lady sat working one day last week, an array of paint tubes on the table in front of her. Through the ...

the day the painter Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as "Grandma Moses," died at the age of 101. Born in 1860, she had no formal training in art. Instead, she lived much of her life on a small ...

But many years later, when Anna Mary Robertson had become an old woman known and loved the world around as the painter called Grandma Moses, she remembered her father’s dream. Then she wondered ...

Always has been. Always will be." —-Anna Mary Robertson, best known as Grandma Moses She began life as a hard-working farm girl and didn’t begin painting seriously until she was 78 years old.

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.