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2006-09-07 10:44:46 · 7 answers · asked by Tina 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
She was born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenwich, New York. She spent most of her life as a farmer's wife and the mother of 5 children. She married Thomas Solomon Moses in 1887. They lived in the Shenandoah Valley, then later settling at Eagle Bridge.
She began painting in her seventies after abandoning a career in embroidery because of arthritis.
Her artwork was discovered by Louis J. Caldor, a collector who noticed her paintings in a Hoosick Falls, New York drugstore window in 1938. In 1939 an art dealer named Otto Kallir exhibited some of her work at his Galerie Saint-Etienne in New York City. This brought her to the attention of art collectors all over the world, and her paintings were highly sought after. She went on to have exhibitions of her work throughout Europe and even in Japan, where her work was particularly well received. She continued her prolific output of paintings, the demand for which never diminished during her lifetime.
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2006-09-07 10:53:33 · answer #1 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grandma Moses was born in New York In 1860 and taught herself to paint when she was in her 70s. She became the most famous folk artist of the twentieth century. She started exhibiting at country fairs and soon developed a tremendous following. People loved her depiction of life in upstate New York.
2006-09-07 17:53:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grandma Moses. 1860-1961 Started painting in her late 70's in the style called American Primitive. Put her name in a search engine for more info.
2006-09-07 17:53:50 · answer #3 · answered by marchhare57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grandma Moses was a folk-painter in the late 1800-early 1900's. She is credited with developing an American art style.
2006-09-07 17:50:34 · answer #4 · answered by sethsdadiam 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grandma Moses was a folk artist who started painting in her 70's. She lived to be over 100. I love her paintings and she is an inspiration reminding us that you're never too old to start something new.
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Moses
2006-09-07 17:54:41 · answer #5 · answered by mj_indigo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was an old black lady who lived in central Louisiana. Her paintings were important because they were classified as "primitive paintings". Another person in this genre was Clementine Hunter.
2006-09-07 17:57:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
grandma moses was an artist that didnt start painting until she was in her 70's.
she was a really important artist
2006-09-07 17:51:13 · answer #7 · answered by lodeemae 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋