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	Grandma Moses - MSN Encarta
		Grandma Moses (1860-1961), American self-taught artist, known for her scenes of rural life in New York State.
		Her husband died in 1927, and Moses began painting for her own enjoyment in the mid-1930s when she was in her 70s.
		The paintings that brought her fame as Grandma Moses feature the changing seasons and the various activities of farm life—sleigh rides, quilting bees, making soap or apple butter, barn dances, and county fairs.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553047/Grandma_Moses.html (368 words)

	Anna Mary Robertson: Grandma Moses and Her Place in History - National Museum of Women in the Arts - Absolutearts.com
		Grandma Moses in the 21st Century, an exhibition of 87 of the most important works by Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses from public and private collections in the U.S. and Japan, will begin a national tour at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) from March 15 to June 10, 2001.
		Moses, a farmer and homemaker from upstate New York who became one of the most respected folk artists of the pre-World War II period, was also one of the first artists to become a media superstar and probably the best known woman artist of her era.
		Moses was born Anna Mary Robertson on a farm in upstate New York in 1860.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2001/03/16/28245.html (929 words)

	Amazon.ca: Grandma Moses in the 21st Century: Books: Jane Kallir,Roger Cardinal,Michael D. Hall,Lynda Roscoe ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Grandma Moses, a self-taught artist from upstate New York who first came to public attention at the age of 80, created 1600 works before her death at the age of 101.
		Grandma Moses is an amalgam of wisdom, nostalgia, and idealism that should place her firmly in the U.S.'s artistic heritage.
		Grandma Moses In The 21st Century is a catalog of an elderly painter's folk art and provides an excellent survey of her works including an intricate examination of her working methods, her interpretive process, and her role in the context of modern art and social movements of her times, in the 1940s and 50s.
	www.amazon.ca /Grandma-Moses-Century-Jane-Kallir/dp/088397133X (1010 words)

	Grandma Moses
		Grandma Moses was born Anna Mary Robertson on September 7th 1860, on a farm in Washington county, New York to Mr.
		Grandma Moses had some of her first paintings exhibited at Thomas' drug store where they caught the attention of a man named Louis Caldor, who had come from New York and was just passing through town.
		Grandma Moses was not trained in art during any part of her life.
	www.richeast.org /htwm/artists/JC/moses.html (899 words)

	Grandma Moses The Caldwell Gallery
		Grandma Moses was a self-taught, American female Folk artist who achieved iconic status with her work.
		Moses' career was publicly launched in 1939 after an exhibit in the local drugstore window, which was brought to the attention of the director of Galerie St. Etienne, NYC.
		Grandma Moses died at the age of 101.
	www.caldwellgallery.com /bios/mosesbio.html (170 words)

	Grandma Moses Exhibit
		Grandma Moses, born Anna Mary Robertson in 1860, grew up in the farm country of upstate New York, one of 10 children.
		Though Grandma Moses' painting didn't come to public attention until 1940 - she was 80 years old at the time -- she had a rich background in homespun crafts, as she decorated her own home with painted furniture and embroidery.
		A prolific folk artist, Grandma Moses' work provides a carriage-ride view of life in the early 20th Century, and, though similar at first glance, her paintings benefit from an extra moment of reflection.
	eldercare.uniontrib.com /srzone/gmamoses.cfm (449 words)

	JS Online: Grandma Moses' art getting a 2nd look
		Grandma Moses' "The Thunderstorm" is among paintings in an exhibit that revisits the work of the farm woman who became an art superstar.
		Moses' art is most rewarding when seen through the prism of her remarkable life, which began as one of 10 children of a farmer who painted landscapes.
		Moses' paintings are time capsules, colorful narrative landscapes brimming with anecdotal vignettes about the joys of a way of life now lost.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/apr01/moses16_s041301.asp (1026 words)

	GRANDMA MOSES in the 21st Century Arts & Activities - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Moses embarked on a new career at an age when most people have long since retired, and in 1940, at age 80, she was given her first one-woman show.
		Moses preferred to work in oil paint on a support of Masonite, hard board or cardboard, upon which she first built a ground of three coats of flat white paint.
		Like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses occupies a unique position in American art history and has reached a level of recognition that permits her to be included within the folk-art realm, as well as the mainstream of traditional art.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HTZ/is_2_129/ai_71004616 (892 words)

	Grandma Moses: Never Too Late to Start - Art History
		In case you didn’t know, September 7th is officially recognized as “Grandma Moses Day.” Long considered a household name in both the US and abroad, Grandma Moses was a famous American folk artist who began her career in art at age 76.
		Grandma Moses was born Anna Mary Robertson on September 7 in 1860 on a family-owned flax mill in upstate New York.
		So Moses made her public debut at the Galerie St. Etienne in the Fall of 1940 in an exhibition entitled "What a Farmwife Painted." Several months later, a journalist made popular the local nickname of “Grandma Moses” when he heard the name while interviewing friends of Moses.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art35207.asp (1024 words)

	Grandma Moses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grandma Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961) was a renowned American folk artist.
		Grandma Moses painted mostly scenes of rural life.
		She died at Hoosick Falls on December 13, 1961 and is buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grandma_Moses (552 words)

	The World & I: Folk Art-Grandma Moses
		Grandma Moses in the Twenty-first Century, a retrospective of the artist's work, is now on national tour.
		Moses usually painted from memory, wanting to capture the image of "old-timey things," as she did with The Old Checkered House (1944), which preserves the memory of a historic inn that had burned down in 1907.
		Moses' gift lay in her ineffable ability to make her memories our memories in works that embrace the direct connection between past and present, and the connection between experience and values that continues to provide an anchor in an ever-changing world.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/gallery/gallery.html (1688 words)

	A New Look at Moses - exhibition of Grandma Moses' paintings - Brief Article Insight on the News - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Grandma Moses was born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenwich, N.Y., in 1860.
		Moses collected images that caught her eye from newspapers, magazines and postcards and arranged them in ways that pleased her on pressed-wood boards.
		Moses herself described her decisive experience: One day, looking at the convex surface of an automobile hubcap, she saw her farm and the valley reflected in way that pleased her supremely.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_16_17/ai_74337133 (943 words)

	Grandma Moses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Grandma Moses died on December 13, 1961, at the age of 101, she had been a regular news feature for more than two decades and she had completed more than 1,600 works of art.
		Grandma Moses is buried in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Hoosick Falls, NY.
		Grandma Moses first came to public attention in 1940, at the age of 80, as part of a general burst of appreciation for self-taught art.
	www.hoosickhistory.com /biographies/GrandmaMoses.htm (778 words)

	Grandma Moses: Reflections of America
		GRANDMA MOSES: Reflections of America is intended to complement a seven-city museum tour, "Grandma Moses in the 21st Century," which was curated by the Galerie St. Etienne and which will be traveling through 2002.
		Grandma Moses was not (as has sometimes been said) an overnight success, but by the mid 1940s she had begun to enjoy national renown.
		Grandma Moses proved so enormously influential on other self-taught artists and especially on children's book illustrators, that the origins of this ubiquitous "primitive" style are sometimes forgotten.
	www.artincontext.org /listings/pages/exhib/t/ub35y8gt/press.htm (499 words)

	Grandma Moses in the 21st Century
		Although the story of Grandma Moses' uncanny discovery and tremendous national popularity is well known, this exhibition breaks new scholarly ground in re-examining Moses' most important paintings from a contemporary viewpoint, while charting the considerable evolution of her style.
		Grandma Moses is usually characterized as a "folk" or "naïve" artist, terms reserved for those who have never received formal training in art.
		Grandma Moses is usually characterized as a "folk or "naïve" artist, terms reserved for those who have never received formal training in art or were self-taught.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/2aa/2aa516.htm (1506 words)

	IATWM May 2006: Grandma Moses, Grandmother to the Nation
		At the young age of 77 Grandma Moses was discovered as the American answer to primitive or naive painting.
		Grandma Moses unique turn of phrase to describe this phenomenon is "primitive is what they call amateur art that sells".
		In the early years of the twentieth Century Grandma Moses and her family returned to her roots in Washington County, purchasing a farm known as Mt. Nebo, near Eagle Bridge in New York.
	www.iatwm.com /200605/GrandmaMoses/GrandmaMoses.html (624 words)

	Galleries
		Moses began painting in her seventies and by the time of her death in 1961, she had created over 1500 works of art.
		The Bennington Museum holds the largest public collection of Moses' paintings in the country, as well as "Yarn paintings", art supplies, and the 18th century tilt-top table Moses painted with rustic scenes and used as her easel.
		Attended by Grandma Moses and other members of her family in Eagle Bridge, New York, the Grandma Moses Schoolhouse was moved to the grounds of the Bennington Museum in 1972.
	www.benningtonmuseum.com /grandma_moses_gallery.aspx (180 words)

	My Biography Journal About Grandma Moses by Jasmine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Grandma Moses got most of her painting ideas from her childhood.
		When Grandma Moses was a girl, her name was Anna Mary Robertson.
		Grandma Moses put her paintings in a drugstore window and the first person to buy them was an art collector from New York.
	www.crockerfarm.org /ac/rm02/biography/GrandmaMoses.htm (523 words)

	Grandma Moses
		Grandma Moses was born Anna Mary Robertson in Washington County, on September 7, 1860.
		Grandma might have remained a relatively unknown folk painter if one of her daughter's had not believed that Anna Mary's work deserved exposure.
		Grandma Moses began to paint seriously at age seventy-six, and for twenty-five years captured landscapes, architecture and early life style and activities as she remembered them.
	www.mestern.net /usa/newyork/grandma/index.php (1223 words)

	Grandma Moses
		Anna Mary Robertson Moses didn't even begin painting until she was seventy five, and then it was only because her arthritis hurt her too badly to do needlework any more.
		Moses was described by friends as "feisty and strong willed," but that was probably needed during the hard Depression years.
		Moses was tending sheep in his autumn years of his life when God called him to be Israel's deliverer.
	www.philchristensen.com /Grandma.html (480 words)

	Grandma Moses in the 21st Century - San Diego Museum of Art - Absolutearts.com
		Grandma Moses is one the great icons among 20th century folk artists, and it is with great pleasure that the San Diego Museum of Art now makes her lively paintings available and accessible to our community, says the Museum’s executive director, Don Bacigalupi.
		An elderly farmer and homemaker from upstate New York, Grandma Moses first came to public attention in 1940, at the age of 80, as part of a general burst of appreciation for self-taught art.
		Grandma Moses is usually characterized as a folk or naïve artist, terms reserved for those who have never received formal training in art (later termed outsider art).
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2001/07/01/28787.html (1129 words)

	Grandma Moses - Bio
		Born Anna Mary Robertson in upstate New York in 1860, Grandma Moses received little formal education and spent her girlhood working on her parents' farm.
		In 1887 she married a farmer, Thomas Moses, and moved with him to Staunton, Virginia, where she continued her life of hard work and eventually gave birth to ten children, five of whom survived.
		Moses died in 1961 at the age of 101 in Hoosick Falls, New York.
	www.phillipscollection.org /american_art/bios/moses-bio.htm (314 words)

	Homespun and heartfelt
		Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses was born in 1860 on a farm near Greenwich, N.Y., in a valley nestled up against the Vermont border.
		Grandma Moses was a household name in the 1940s and '50s, when her paintings were shown at major department stores, including Minneapolis' own Dayton's, and featured in advertisements for everything from Old Gold cigarettes to Du Barry lipstick, Gold Medal Flour and Bisquick baking mix.
		Grandma Moses was a natural topic for her because Marling was raised in upstate New York, Grandma's turf.
	www.startribune.com /1375/story/861354.html (695 words)

	NYSHA/TFM Press Room - Major Retrospective Exhibition on Grandma Moses Opens at Fenimore Art Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Grandma Moses achieved great success with her folk art and became a media celebrity featured on radio and television.
		Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation was curated by Lee Kogan, Curator of Special Exhibitions and Public Programs at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, and Karal Ann Marling, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.
		Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation is funded in part by The Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent federal grant-making agency; New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.nysha.org /pressroom/entry_detail.asp?id=260 (596 words)

	Grandma Moses Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Anna Mary Robertson was born in Greenwich, N.Y., on Sept. 7, 1860, one of 10 children of a farmer.
		Most of Grandma Moses' paintings were done on pieces of strong cardboard, 24 by 30 inches or less.
		Grandma Moses worked from memory, portraying a way of life she knew intimately.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/grandma-moses (533 words)

	Grandma Moses
		Anna Mary Robertson Moses was born on September 7, 1860 in Washington County, New York.
		Moses was a busy farmer's wife and mother who without any formal training started to paint when she was in her seventies.
		Grandma Moses' paintings and yarn pictures recall her childhood in upstate New York and the traditional activities of rural life.
	www.cps.k12.ri.us /glenhill/carmody/Carmody/moses/moses.htm (314 words)

	Moses, Grandma - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MOSES, GRANDMA [Moses, Grandma] (Anna Mary Robertson Moses), 1860-1961, American painter, b.
		She lived the arduous life of a farm wife, first in the Shenandoah Valley and later at Eagle Bridge, near Hoosick Falls, N.Y. In her late 70s, too frail to do hard work, she began to paint.
		Profile: Grandma Moses exhibit at Washington, DC, gallery
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-moses-g1r.html (306 words)

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