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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 ...
“Memory is history recorded in our brain,” is how Grandma Moses begins her autobiography, “My Life’s History,” published in 1948 at the apex of her fame. “Memory is a painter, it ...
To occupy her busy fingers, Anna Moses (80) decided to take up painting. She ordered a set of paints from Sears, ... Folks around Eagle Bridge never paid much attention to Grandma Moses’ paintings.
Moses’s paintings, which she described as coming from memory, were supposed to be sincere, rather than calculating. Self-taught artists weren’t supposed to be so smart. Yet Grandma Moses was both.
The lecture "Grandma Moses: Life and Art" by Jane Kallir, Director of Galerie St. Etienne, on December 10; A Curatorial Conversations gallery talk about the Janet Fish painting, ...
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 ...
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.
The Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory has exhibitors from 70 galleries who’ll be showing everything from porcelain to paintings to furniture from January 19 to January 28. First ...