How the U.S. Government Deployed Grandma Moses Overseas in the Cold War In 1950, an exhibition of the famed artist’s paintings toured Europe in a promotional campaign of American culture ...

Mary Vinson, the artist and author born without a name, didn't learn how to read or write until she was in her 50s.

Historic New England towns. Awesome swimming holes. Cute farm stands. And cows – lots and lots of cows. Vermont’s Route 7 ...

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, ...

When Gimbels department store exhibited some of those paintings, and when the 80-year-old artist whom the press would come to call “Grandma Moses” showed up (by invitation) at Thanksgiving with her ...

Vienna’s tiny Neue Galerie was bright last week with crude, cheery pictures of U.S. farm life, New York State style. The paintings were the work of 89-year-old “Primitive” Grandma Moses ...

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." ...

Grandma Moses changed ideas about art ... Grandma Moses painted memories of hard work and simple pleasures from her youth with a strong sense of the different colors of the seasons.

BENNINGTON — Bennington Museum has begun renovations on the "Grandma Moses" gallery thanks to funds raised from the Museum's winter Gala.

WHITE CREEK — History, art and farmland preservation came together Friday when the landscape that inspired Grandma Moses' paintings of rural life was permanently protected from development. "She ...