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Grandma Moses

Grandma (Anna Robertson) Moses (1860 - 1961) was active/lived in New York, Virginia.  Grandma Moses is known for Naive landscape and rural genre naive painting.

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The following text is from a review in the Washington Post, April 5, 2001, by Jo Ana Lewis:

Americana Beauty: Newfangled Feminist Perspectives Aside, Grandma Moses Deserves a Second Look

Grandma Moses in the 21st Century," a retrospective at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, exhibits 87 paintings including "The Lake," from 1957.

(Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York via Reuters)

In 1961, when the American farm wife known as Grandma Moses died, she was 101 and world-famous.  Born a year before the Civil War, she was in her seventies when she taught herself to paint.  And in her eighties when she became a superstar.

Today, Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961) is known chiefly through reproductions of her oil paintings, especially her winter scenes -- quintessential American pictures -- which still appear on dinnerware (based on her painting Home for Thanksgiving) and millions of Chris   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 39603 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

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