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

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 ...

Hildegard Bachert, a refu­gee of Nazi Germany who became a vital behind-the-scenes force in the New York City art world, introducing American collectors to German and Austrian Expressionists ...

The New York art world that welcomed Warhol treated Moses with condescension. At the Bennington Museum they hang side by side.

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.

Folks around Eagle Bridge never paid much attention to Grandma Moses’ paintings. But one day a Manhattan inventor of a streamlined percolator named Louis Caldor happened to pass through Eagle ...

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.

Jan Woodcock knew his grandmother and her sister had been reared by their aunt, Grandma Moses. He knew that his own mother regarded the revered American folk artist as, yes, a grandma ...