The New Criterion

My Grandma Moses

My parents were not fans of Grandma Moses (1860–1961), the octogenarian painting farmwife discovered and promoted by my grandfather Otto Kallir (1894–1978). In the 1950s, Moses seemed to be everywhere ...
Hyperallergic

The Making of Grandma Moses, Folk Modernist

SHELBURNE, Vt. — The Grandma Moses story reads a lot like an artist’s fairy tale. In 1938, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, a 78-year-old grandmother living on a farm in upstate New York, hung a few of her ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In Her 70s, Grandma Moses Began Painting Lovely Scenes of Rural Life. Then She Became an Icon

A new Smithsonian retrospective explores the legacy of America’s beloved late bloomer, often underrated in art history Samantha Baskind - Museums Correspondent What began as a hobby on a farmhouse ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Grandma Moses’ Folk Art Took Her from the Farm to Fame

Discover how Grandma Moses, a self-taught artist, turned to painting in her late 70s and became an American folk-art icon. Leslie Umberger & Meredith Herndon Portrait of Grandma Moses in 1950 by Clara ...
Publishers Weekly

Grandma Moses

Alexandra Wallner, the author and artist behind Betsy Ross and Abigail Adams, offers another illustrated biography of a celebrated American in Grandma Moses. The book follows Anna Mary Robertson ...