Grandma Moses

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

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September 7 - 1860 - December 13 - 1961 - Folk artist

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She was born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenville, New York. She spent most of her life as a farmer's wife and the mother of five children. She married Thomas Salmon Moses in 1887.

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She began painting in her seventies after abandoning a career in embroidery because of arthritis.

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Painting - Embroidery - Arthritis

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Her artwork was discovered by Louis J. Caldor, a collector who noticed her paintings in a 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.

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Louis J. Caldor - Otto Kallir - Galerie Saint-Etienne - New York City

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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.

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Harry S. Truman - Women's National Press Club Award - See It Now - Edward R. Murrow

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Grandma Moses painted mostly scenes of rural life.

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