One of these families, the Whitesides, noticed her interest in their Currier and Ives prints and bought her chalk and wax crayons. She continued to keep house, cook, and sew for wealthy families for 15 years. Īt age 12, she left home and performed farm chores for a wealthy neighboring family. As a child, she started painting using lemon and grape juice to make colors for her "landscapes" and used ground ocher, grass, flour paste, slacked lime, and sawdust. She was inspired to paint by taking art lessons at school. That school is now the Bennington Museum in Vermont, which has the largest collection of her works in the United States. Her father ran a flax mill and was a farmer. She was raised with four sisters and five brothers. In 2006, her 1943 painting titled Sugaring Off was sold at Christie's New York for US$1.2 million, setting an auction record for the artist.Įarly life Anna Mary Robertson in the 1860sĪnna Mary Robertson was born in Greenwich, New York on Septemshe was the third of ten children born to Margaret Shanahan Robertson and Russell King Robertson. Moses' work has been a subject of numerous museum exhibitions worldwide and has been extensively merchandised, such as on greeting cards. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild." In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. She was able to capture the excitement of winter's first snow, Thanksgiving preparations and the new, young green of oncoming spring. In her 1961 obituary, The New York Times said: "The simple realism, nostalgic atmosphere and luminous color with which Grandma Moses portrayed simple farm life and rural countryside won her a wide following. She embroidered pictures with yarn, until disabled by arthritis. They had ten children, five of whom survived infancy. In 1905, they returned to the Northeastern United States and settled in Eagle Bridge, New York. Moses and her husband began their married life in Virginia, where they worked on farms. An employer noticed her appreciation for their prints made by Currier and Ives, and they supplied her with drawing materials.
Moses was a live-in housekeeper for a total of 15 years, starting at age 12. She was also awarded two honorary doctoral degrees. Her autobiography, titled My Life's History, was published in 1952. Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953, was a subject of numerous television programs and of a 1950 Oscar-nominated biographical documentary. 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. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (Septem– December 13, 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist.
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