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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

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Grandma Moses available:    Andrew Newell Wyeth,  Childe Hassam,  Ernest Lawson,  John George Brown,  Charles Burchfield,  John Marin,  Francis Augustus Silva,  Norman Rockwell,  Frederick Carl Frieseke,  Edward Henry Potthast,  Jasper Francis Cropsey,  Maurice Brazil Prendergast,  Everett Shinn,  Martin Johnson Heade,  Marsden Hartley,  William James Glackens,  Guy Pene Du Bois,  Richard Edward Miller,  John Singer Sargent,  NC Wyeth,  Milton Clark Avery,  Theodore Robinson,  Fairfield Porter,  Willard Leroy Metcalf



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Grandma Moses


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Folk Art, Folk Lore
  • Gardens, Garden Scenes
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • Snowscene, Winter Landscape
  • Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Adirondack Mountains
  • Hudson River Valley, New York
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Hallmark Cards, Inc.
  • Vandeveer Spratlen Collection
Added Description
  • Centenarian Artist, Lived 100 Years or More
  • Genre Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Self Taught, Autodidact
  • Snowscene Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York

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