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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Today, she said, a Grandma Moses painting would start at about $25,000 and go up to $250,000. Kallir described the artist as very down-to-earth and unpretentious, particularly after she became famous.

What: “Grandma Moses: An American Primitive,” a two-person drama starring Christine Decker that chronicles the life of America’s best-known folk artist. It follows Moses as a child, a young ...

On Dec. 13, 1961, the artist known as "Grandma Moses" died at the age of 101 . Almanac: Grandma Moses 02:12. And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: December 13th, 1961, ...

Washington - Though she's loved as a simple painter of homey scenes, and her roots were in rural upstate New York, Anna Mary Robertson often painted like a French Impressionist, says the curator of ...

Today we celebrate Grandma Moses, who was born as Anna Mary Robertson on today's date in 1860, in Greenwich, New York. In 1960, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller proclaimed Grandma Moses Day to take place ...

The couple is looking to downsize and that means auctioning off some of their collectables, including two Grandma Moses paintings. Roy Rotenberry obtained the two painting about 10 to 15 years ago. He ...