Grandma Moses (1860-1961)

Aliases: Grandma Moses; Anna Mary Moses; Anna Mary Robertson Moses; Anna Mary Robertson; Anna Maryl Robertson

Professions: Painter

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  Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses (1860-1961)

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  Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses 1860-1961 , We Are Coming to Church

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  Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses (1860-1961)

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  A Parade

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Grandma Moses Biography

(b Greenwich, NY, 7 Sept 1860; d Hoosick Falls, NY, 13 Dec 1961). American painter. The third of ten children, she was encouraged as a child by her father to paint and draw. She worked on a neighbouring farm from the age of 12 until her marriage to Thomas Salmon Moses in 1887. The couple became farmers in Virginia and in 1905 purchased a farm in Eagle Bridge, NY. She decorated certain objects in her home with painted scenes, but it was only in her 70s, with no previous training, that she began to make pictures with embroidered yarn; finding that stiffness in her hands made it difficult to hold a needle, she soon started painting in oils.

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