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Grandma Moses
Anna Mary Robertson Moses, popularly known as Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953. She was a subject of numerous television programs and of a 1950 Oscar-nominated bio…
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culture · American painter (1860–1961) · painter · illustrator · embroiderer · artist · also Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, Anna Robertson [a.k.a. Grandma Moses] Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses, Mrs. Thomas S. Moses, Moses
Born 7 September 1860 · Died 13 December 1961 · Q260683
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2026· 2 entries
“get an inspiration and start painting; then I”
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2025· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work
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2020· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Grandma Moses Christmas card to Frances Greer
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2016· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: The Making of Grandma Moses, Folk Modernist
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2015· 1 entry
CBS News: Almanac: Grandma Moses
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2006· 1 entry
Her 1943 painting titled Sugaring Off was sold at Christie's New York for US$1
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1961· 8 entries
At the Health Center in Hoosick Falls, New York
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Died 1961-12-13.
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“If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.”
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“A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.”
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“I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.”
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“Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.”
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“I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.”
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“I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.”
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1955· 1 entry
Appeared as a guest on See It Now, a television program hosted by Edward R
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1952· 1 entry
Published her autobiography, My Life's History
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1950· 2 entries
Awarded candidate for Grandma Moses (1950).
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The National Press Club cited her as one of the five most newsworthy women and the National Association of House Dress Manufacturers honored her as their 1951 Woman of the Year
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1949· 3 entries
Awarded lifetime achievement award for Grandma Going to the Big City (1949).
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Awarded honorary doctorate presented by Russell Sage College (1949).
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From Russell Sage College and the second two years later from the Moore College of Art and Design
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1944· 1 entry
Moses was represented by the American British Art Center and the Galerie St
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded prize for Old Oaken Bucket (1941).
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1932· 1 entry
Moses used yarn to embroider pictures for friends and family
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1927· 1 entry
Died of a heart attack, after which Anna's son Forrest helped her operate the farm
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1918· 1 entry
Used house paint to decorate a fireboard
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1905· 2 entries
Returned to the Northeastern United States and settled in Eagle Bridge, New York
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Anna and Thomas moved to a farm in Eagle Bridge, New York, at her husband's urging
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1860· 1 entry
Born 1860-09-07.
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