Grandma Moses.(Brief Article) From: Instructor (1990) | Date: March 1, 2001| Author: Chertok, Bobbi; Hirshfeld, Goody; Rosh, Marilyn | COPYRIGHT 2001 Scholastic, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

ANNA MARY ROBERTSON MOSES

(1860-1961), for most of her life, didn't think of herself as an artist. In her youth, the woman the world would come to know as Grandma Moses married Thomas Salmon Moses, worked hard on their farm, and raised five children. At age 78, she picked up a paintbrush to paint her memories. Without an artist's schooling, she painted landscapes of her childhood and scenes of upstate New York. Her fresh and uncomplicated approach to paintings, her brigh...

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