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BENNINGTON, Vt. — Grandma Moses has a branding problem. Some critics invoke her name derisively, categorizing her alongside mom, baseball, and apple pie. Art, you know, isn’t supposed to be ...
Almanac: Grandma Moses 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," died ...
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—born Sept. 7, 1860—always enjoyed art, but she didn't launch her career until late in her life, for a number of reasons ...
The Jewish refu gee from Nazi Germany dedicated nearly her entire life to cultivating the legacies of artists who might otherwise have gone unnoticed or underappreciated.
Grandma Moses’ great-grandson Rich Moses and his wife, Kathy, began working with the Agricultural Stewardship Association in 2005 to ensure their vegetable farm would not be overrun by development.
For the first half of ”Grandma Moses,” currently at the Civic Theatre, Cloris Leachman portrays that celebrated character in hearty middle age, well before international fame, busily pa… ...
BENNINGTON, Vt. — The Bennington Museum is known internationally as home to the largest public collection of Grandma Moses art. But rotating those works in different galleries is not on the museum's ...
(The headline as published has been corrected in this text.) Grandma Moses lived a very long time–101 years–and now she lives again, in a cozy, charming retrospective exhibition of some… ...