Almanac: Grandma Moses 02:12. 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 ...

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—born Sept. 7, 1860—always enjoyed art, but she didn't launch her career until late in her life, for a number of reasons. The American folk painter was born Sept. 7, 1860.

One, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961), a “Housewife. New York,” was a farm woman who at age 78 began painting scenes of rural New England life.

Dr. Kallir dedicated his biography, “Grandma Moses, American Primitive” (1947), to Ms. Bachert, who was his editor and the gallery’s liaison to Moses.

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 ...