Also on view will be the first painting donated to the museum by the Kallir family in 2016, “Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City” (1946), a rare work in which Moses includes herself in the depicted ...

Moses became one of America’s most-loved painters. 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 ...

Grandma Moses, the renowned 20th-century American folk artist known for paintings of country life, would have turned 156 on Wednesday. The artist graced the cover of the Dec. 28, 1953, issue of ...

Editor’s note: A chapter from the life of the artist who painted primitive landscapes until her death at 101., One morning at breakfast, Anna Mary’s father told her that he’d drea… ...

Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961), A Country Wedding, 1951. Oil on pressed board, 22 x 27 in. Bennington Museum/Grandma Moses Properties Co. In the 1950s more Americans knew the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.