She was a visual memoirist, recreating images of a bygone America ... in the Luce Foundation Center on the third floor and "Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City" in the "Experience America ...

In 1950, Otto Kallir established Grandma Moses Properties, Inc., which offered licensing of Moses’s images for Hallmark Cards, prints, dinnerware, ceramics, and fabrics. Twelve years later ...

Grandma Moses, the renowned 20th-century American ... she tried to distract herself with embroidery and “worsted pictures,” but developed a debilitating arthritis. A family member’s ...

Most of her pictures showed scenes and events of farm ... Folks around Eagle Bridge never paid much attention to Grandma Moses’ paintings. But one day a Manhattan inventor of a streamlined ...

Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961), A Country Wedding, 1951. Oil on pressed board, 22 x 27 in. Bennington Museum/Grandma Moses Properties Co. In the 1950s more Americans knew the ...

Western culture has long romanticized the image of the young artist ... these artistic late bloomers is Anna Mary Robertson Moses, a.k.a. Grandma Moses, who did not embark on a serious painting ...

"But Grandma Moses was a visual storyteller, and human beings like to read stories in pictures. We have narrative minds. So why fight it? People should just enjoy these paintings for the ...

"Grandma Moses often drew upon nostalgic tropes of a much romanticized ... her paintings have become iconic images in America's collective consciousness." ...

(Since Moses’ images had appeared on postcards and calenders they could not possibly be “serious” art.) With the shift in elite taste, Jackson Pollack was in, Grandma Moses was out ...

Her pictures once sold at county fairs and stores for a few hundred dollars. Today, they fetch upward of $100,000. Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, never set out to ...