Americana Beauty; Newfangled Feminist Perspectives Aside, Grandma Moses Deserves a Second Look

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 5, 2001| Author: Jo Ann Lewis | Copyright information

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...

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