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22 ώρες πριν · Its vast library and archives—pertaining to the Austrian and German Modernists stewarded by Galerie St Etienne for decades as well as self-taught artists, including Grandma Moses, whom Otto ...
(American, 1860–1961) Grandma Moses: A Beautiful World. 1948. Oil on pressed wood. Private collection. © Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York. Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses was “discovered” in 1940 by Otto Kallir, who oversaw her rise to international fame.
A lifelong farmwoman, Moses was renowned for her depictions of rural American life. She adopted a naïve, so-called "primitive" style that is evocative of both nineteenth-century "folk" painting and twentieth-century modernism.
The hardboiled New York press corps was delighted, and the legend of Grandma Moses was born. In defiance of every precedent, Grandma Moses became a superstar. She did not do so willfully or suddenly, but she did so nonetheless.
Grandma Moses did not start painting until she was seventy-seven years old and looking for something to do “to keep busy and out of mischief” after her husband died. She painted nostalgic scenes of American life and sold them at country fairs alongside her prize-winning pickles.
The Artist, Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) Paintings by Grandma Moses provide nostalgic glimpses of daily life in rural New York and Virginia. A self-taught artist, she did not begin painting until her late 70s.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age.
