Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as Grandma Moses, began her painting career at the age of 78. She initially took up painting as a hobby once arthritis made embroidery difficult.

She looked back on that moment in Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City, a 1946 painting of the lush countryside near her home in Eagle Bridge, New York. The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently ...

Her religious-themed pieces echo those of the old masters. Textile art pieces by artist Martha Mood, called stitcheries, are seen on display at the San Antonio Country Club on Thursday.

The late discovery of Grandma Moses, bringing her paintings from the periphery to the center of the art world, leads to a discussion of network theory and the importance of weak ties.

Kallir has reserved around 100 Grandma Moses paintings for institutions—50 of which, collectively valued at around $5m, have now been allocated to five museums.

Eagle Bridge, N. Y. (pop. 300) nestles on the hard western slope of Vermont's Green Mountains just where they roll over the New York border. There 13 years ago Farmer Thomas Solomon Moses died, ...

A Grandma Moses painting. Life: (1860–1961) Net Worth: $1 million Anna Mary Robertson Moses (Grandma Moses) was a painter. Moses grew up on a farm in New York, and once old enough, worked as a ...

She also assisted the artist while she dictated her memoir, “My Life’s History” (1951). Grandma Moses died in 1961.

A pioneer Oklahoma woman whose talent for drawing was recognized when she was 5 became known in later years as the "Prairie Painter," the "Sagebrush Artist" and "Oklahoma's Grandma Moses." Augusta ...

A 1969 stamp honoring Grandma Moses. This 6-cent stamp was designed by Robert J. Jones and features Moses’ painting “July Fourth.” It was issued May 1, 1969, in Washington, DC, as part of ...

In all, Moses probably only did about 20 paintings of interior scenes, such as “Old Times,” Franklin said. The source of these acquisitions, The Kallir Research Institute, (KRI) is a nonprofit ...

At the Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side, one might find a Grandma Moses painting, a suit of armor from the early 1500s and a bunch of Tiffany lamps.