Info about Grandma Moses...?

Question

What kind of Form did she use? Also about the times in which she painted

Answer 1

Here is the wikipedia link for you:

Grandma Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961) was a renowned American folk artist.

She was born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenwich, New York.

As a child, she used fruit juice to paint on pieces of wood or materials her father brought home for her. He brought the other children candy, but she preferred drawing supplies because "it lasted longer than candy."

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 before settling in Eagle Bridge, New York.

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 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. 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.

In 1946, her painting "The Old Checkered Inn in Summer" was featured in the background of a national advertising campaign for the young women's lip gloss "PRIMITIVE RED" by Du Barry cosmetics.

President Harry S. Truman presented her with the Women's National Press Club Award for outstanding accomplishment in art in 1949. In 1951, she appeared on See It Now, a television program hosted by Edward R. Murrow. In 1952, she published her autobiography entitled Grandma Moses: My Life's History.

Grandma Moses painted mostly scenes of rural life. Some of her many paintings were used on the covers of Hallmark cards.

"Grandma" Moses celebrated her 100th birthday on the 7th of September, 1960. Life magazine commissioned Cornell Capa to make a portrait of Moses for the occasion, which it printed as a cover article. New York governor Nelson Rockefeller also proclaimed the day "Grandma Moses Day" in her honor.

She died at Hoosick Falls on December 13, 1961 and is buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery. Her gravestone is inscribed with this epitaph: "Her primitive paintings captured the spirit and preserved the scene of a vanishing countryside." She had outlived most of her children.

For a sense of the current value of her paintings, a September 2nd 1942 piece entitled "The Old Checkered House, 1862" was appraised at the Memphis 2004 Antiques Roadshow. The painting was unique in that it showed a summer scene, as she was well known for her winter landscapes. Originally purchased in the 40s for $110, appraiser Alan Fausel assigned the piece an insurance value of $60,000.

Answer 2

Grandma Moses who's full name was Anna Mary Robertson I think of American Folk Art when I look at her work. Grandma Moses was born in 1860 and lived during the time of the Civil War and 2 World Wars. She lived to the age of 101. She probably saw one of the first automobiles as well as the first airplanes since they were invented during her lifetime. You can tell by her paintings that she loved the countryside and did a lot of needlework. Many of the brushstrokes in her artworks resemble stitches that someone sewing would make. She did paintings with the titles of fairy tales like "Mary and Little Lamb" and "Little Boy Blue." She also did paintings that included a favorite seasonal theme like Christmas or Thanksgiving. Her landscapes probably show us much of what she saw from her farms in rural upstate New York. Through her paintings you can almost see the story she would tell you if she were still here.

Answer 3

I grew up about three miles from Grandma Moses...in 1957 she visited our sixth grade art class and I sat on her lap. Her great great grandaughter was a class mate that year. Her family still sells fruits and vegetables at her farm site near Eagle Bridge, NY. I saw her once outside her home, painting. Her offspring Will Moses and Robert (check me on that) continue her tradition of Folk Art or Primitive Art, meaning she was unschooled, self-trained. She painted in the Post War period and many scenes were of her rural farm life...she painted several scenes of my hometown, Hoosick Falls, NY. Thunderstorms, fires, farm routines, and such were her themes. The previous answer fills in a good portion of her life.

Answer 4

How about Google? Or Wikipedia? Or reading an actual book? Or asking this in the 'homework' section?