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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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Research resources

.  askART lists Grandma Moses in 1 of its research Essays. Grandma Moses has 42 artist signature examples available in our database.

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Facts about Grandma Moses

   Publications  Book References:  82
Magazine References:  9

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9 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Grandma Moses
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Fine Art Connoisseur The Hosek Collection of American Art October 2006 Trippi, Peter Yes
The Magazine Antiques Everything Old Is New Again: Grandma Moses and the Colonial Revival September 2006 Marling, Karal Ann Yes
American Art Review Envisioning New England December 2004 Grinnell & Hunter Yes
Art & Antiques Gallery Watch September 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
ARTnews Strange Comfort September 2002 Sheets, Hilarie M. Yes
American Artist Moses in the Millennium April 2001 Noonan, Catherine Yes
Art & Antiques Museum Scene March 2001 Editors Yes
American Art Review Folk Art Traditions in America February 2001 Joyce, Henry Yes
American Art Review Vernacular Architecture November 1996 Hollander, Stacy Yes
82 Book References for Grandma Moses
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 Moure, Nancy Dustin Publications in California Art No. 11 Index to California Art Exhibited at the Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1972 0 No
2006 Marling, Karal Ann Designs on the Heart: The Homemade Art of Grandma Moses 0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Wallner, Alexandra Grandma Moses 32 Yes
2003 Schaefer, A.R. Grandma Moses Life and Work of Grandma Moses 32 Yes
2000 Nikola-Lisa The Year with Grandma Moses 32 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Janis, Sidney They Taught Themselves: American Primitive Painters of the 20th Century 236 Yes
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1997 Kallir, Jane Grandma Moses 25 Masterworks 56 Yes
1997 Schlier, Deborah Selections from Gertrude Vandeveer Spratlen Collection 63 Yes
1996 Ketchum, William C Jr. Grandma Moses: An American Original 80 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Hickok, Beth Moses Remembering Grandma Moses 63 Yes
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1991 Cleary, Margot Grandma Moses 0 Yes
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 Hall, Donald/Pat C Wykes Anecdotes of Modern Art From Rousseau to Warhol 377 No
1990 Rosenak, Chuck and Jan Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists 416 Yes
1989 Biracree, Tom Grandma Moses (Women of Achievement) 111 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 La Cour, Donna Ward Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc 196 No
1989 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections 198 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Rumford, Beatrix American Folk Paintings Paintings and Drawings Other Than Portraits 449 Yes
1988 Vlach, John Michael Plain Painters Making Sense of American Folk Art 206 Yes
1988 Wooden, Howard E Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem 212 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Fox, Dan; Henry Abrams The Grandma Moses American Songbook 0 Yes
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Kallir, Jane The World of Grandma Moses
(Exhibition catalog)
32 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1983 Johnson, Jay; William Ketchum American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century 342 Yes
1982 Kallir, Jane Grandma Moses The Artist Behind the Myth 160 Yes
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Nassau County Museum Animals in American Art 1880's-1980's
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Burke, Doreen Bolger American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64 479 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Bishop, Robert Folk Painters of America 255 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 National Gallery of Art Grandma Moses Anna Mary Robertson Mose 1860-1961
(Exhibition catalog)
72 Yes
1979 Withers, Josephine Women Artists in Washington Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1975 Ebert, John and Katherine American Folk Painters 225 Yes
1974 Davidson, Abraham A The Story of American Painting 168 Yes
1974 Frankenstein, Alfred Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art
(Exhibition catalog)
63 Yes
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)
245 Yes
1973 Bennett, Ian A History of American Painting 240 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Kallir, Otto Grandma Moses 357 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Chapellier Galleries American Art Selections Turn of the Century 95 Yes
1969 Kallir, Otto Art and Life of Grandma Moses
(Exhibition catalog)
168 No
1968 Petersen, Martin E Master Works from the Collection Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego
(Exhibition catalog)
70 Yes
1966 Black, Mary/Jean Lipman American Folk Painting 244 Yes
1966 Cheney, Sheldon A Primer of Modern Art 392 No
1965 Everson Museum of Art American Painting from 1830 63 Yes
1965 Geldzahler, Henry American Painting in the Twentieth Century 236 No
1965 Gerdts, William H Women Artists of America 1707-1964
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1965 Harithas, James Phoenix Art Museum Collection Paintings Drawings and Sculpture 225 Yes
1963 Richardson, Edgar P A Short History of Painting in America 347 Yes
1962 Editor Grandma Moses Memorial Exhibition Galerie St. Etienne
(Exhibition catalog)
32 Yes
1961 Kramer, Nora The Grandma Moses Storybook for Boys and Girls 0 Yes
1960 Moses, Anna Robertson My Life's History Loan Exhibition Painting by Grandma Moses
(Exhibition catalog)
63 No
1958 Cheney, Sheldon The Story of Modern Art 723 Yes
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1955 IBM Fine Arts Department A Tribute to Grandma Moses Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
31 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1952 Moses, Anna Robertson My Life's History (autobiography edited by Otto Kallir) 164 Yes
1951 Galerie St Etienne Grandma Moses 25 Masterpieces of Primitive Art
(Exhibition catalog)
25 No
1949 Ford, Alice Pictorial Folk Art New England to California 172 Yes
1948 Born, Wolfgang American Landscape Painting An Interpretation 228 No
1947 Lee, Doris/Arnold Blanch It's Fun to Paint Painting for Enjoyment 127 No
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