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Moses painted the scene, which could be loosely described as Vermont Brueghel, minus the bawdiness, in her hundredth year. Grandma Moses, Sugar Time, 1960. Oil on pressed wood.
Hildegard Bachert, who helped promote artists including Gustav Klimt and Grandma Moses, in 1968. (Galerie St. Etienne) ...
Most of her pictures showed scenes and events of farm life: boiling maple sap on the winter snow, rounding up the turkey for Thanksgiving, covered bridges, Model T Fords, bonfires.
Hailed as one of the greatest of American folk artists, Grandma Moses drew on her own long-ago experiences: "I've been inclined to paint old scenes ...
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 ...
Grandma Moses is best known for her winter scenes of traditional New England farm life. But the bright colors of her less-well-known summer paintings now leap into life with striking shades of ...
Last week a book of her pictures (Grandma Moses, American Primitive, Doubleday; $6) was re-issued with an introduction by Literary Rustic Louis Bromfield, who compared her with Peter Bruegel.
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.
BENNINGTON — Bennington Museum has begun renovations on the "Grandma Moses" gallery thanks to funds raised from the Museum's winter Gala. From January through March, the Museum is traditionally closed ...