A Good Day’s Work” repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, ...

Anna Mary Robertson Moses was looking for something to do “to keep busy and out of mischief” after her husband died. At 77 years old, she had stepped back from her work on her family farm in Eagle ...

In 1940, when Anna Mary Robertson Moses was 80 years old, a New York art dealer happened to see some pictures she had submitted to a “women’s exchange” in Hoosick Falls, a tiny, upstate ...

For frail Anna Mary Robertson Moses, running the farm was pretty hard work. Soon she found she had to rest her back. To occupy her busy fingers, Anna Moses (80) decided to take up painting.

Anna Mary Robertson ”Grandma” Moses had her first New York gallery show when she was in her 80s and painted until her death at age 101, proving that age is not necessarily a hindrance to ...

The artist more properly named Anna Mary Robertson Moses was born in 1860 and began painting more than 70 years later — after arthritis made needlepoint painful. Woodcock said Moses' sister, ...

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.