Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
 

Grandma Moses ( born Grandma Moses, real name Anna Mary Moses , born Robertson , Eng . Anna Mary Moses, b. Robertson; September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961) - American painter - lover , one of the main representatives of the American picturesque primitivism .

Loved to draw since childhood , but most of my life spent on a farm in upstate New York , being the wife of a farmer . Became the mother of five children . In later years engaged in embroidery , but closer to the age of 70 it became difficult for her because of arthritis . After her husband died in 1927, Anna Moses was again drawing .

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In 1938, a New York collector, said Anne Moses figure , displayed in a window in the town pharmacy Hoosick Falls ( born Hoosick Falls), where she lived. During the year, figures Moses began to appear in the New York gallery of Saint - Etienne , and attracted wide attention of collectors and art lovers . During the 1940's . Moses exhibitions were held in many European countries and Japan. In 1941 she received the State Prize of the State of New York, in 1949 , U.S. President Harry Truman personally presented her with the award of the National American Women's Press Club. In 1952 was published her autobiography . In 1960 , the centenary of Grandma Moses , her photograph taken by famous photojournalist Cornell Capa , has been placed on the cover of Life magazine .

Grandma Moses painting depicts rural landscapes and genre scenes , they are often multi-figured and resemble children's drawings. Grandma Moses preferred winter , summer wrote less . One of the summer landscape Moses , "The Old Spotted House , 1862 " ( Work , 1942) , purchased from the author after a $ 110 , was sold in 2004 at auction in Memphis for 60 000 dollars .

In 1938, a New York collector, said Anne Moses figure, displayed in a window in the town pharmacy Hoosick Falls (born Hoosick Falls), where she lived. During the year, figures Moses began to appear in the New York gallery of Saint-Etienne, and attracted wide attention of collectors and art lovers. During the 1940's. Moses exhibitions were held in many European countries and Japan. In 1941 she received the State Prize of the State of New York, in 1949, U.S. President Harry Truman personally presented her with the award of the National American Women's Press Club. In 1952 was published her autobiography. In 1960, the centenary of Grandma Moses, her photograph taken by famous photojournalist Cornell Capa, has been placed on the cover of Life magazine.

Grandma Moses painting depicts rural landscapes and genre scenes, they are often multi-figured and resemble children's drawings. Grandma Moses preferred winter, summer wrote less. One of the summer landscape Moses, "The Old Spotted House, 1862" (Work, 1942), purchased from the author after a $ 110, was sold in 2004 at auction in Memphis for 60 000 dollars.

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It's great that you have created this story, a wonderful grandmother, of course :)

LCR, today in Nizhny Novgorod!
seen the original 1946.
sorry, that photo was not allowed to do so.
Extensive collection of primitivism, the owner invited many times to the forum, shy, ;) yes, and little time with her.

Dogel, stunned ! In the storerooms of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, there are two of her work . Maybe somewhere else , ( do not know ) but certainly it is a rare bird in our area .

Yes ... Russia , of course , full of wonders :) " Maybe a small museum with time will do ? It would be interesting to to look at the "Peregrine Falcon" to the eyeballs staffed by amateurs naive , but because it is so it would have been . Thank you!

The museum, this is good ... In the LV long soars idea of ​​a " Museum of Contemporary Art "
Sapsan ))))) have the foresight to buy shares of Railways ...

Of an extensive collection of more than 20 ! artworks (oil on canvas , paper , oil , karantash , gouache) Mavrina - Tatiana Lebedeva ( 1902 , Nizhny Novgorod - 1996 , Moscow )
http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showth...B8%D0%BD%D0%B0 Thank you A steam - and for work .