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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Remembering Grandma Moses Anna Mary Robertson Moses didn’t take up oil painting as a hobby until she was 75 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Missouri.” One, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961), a “Housewife. New York,” was a farm woman who at age 78 began painting scenes of rural New England life.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses was the biggest American artist of the 20th century, thanks in part to her swimmingly successful “Grandma” brand, which headlined down-home paintings that translated ...
NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on Before Outsider Art, She Was In: A new exhibition that brings together the most popular works by Anna Mary Robertson, known as Grandma Moses. The artist died in 1961 at ...