Grandma Moses, the renowned 20th-century American folk artist known for paintings of country life, would have turned 156 on Wednesday. The artist graced the cover of the Dec. 28, 1953, issue of ...

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 ...

Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961), A Country Wedding, 1951. Oil on pressed board, 22 x 27 in. Bennington Museum/Grandma Moses Properties Co. In the 1950s more Americans knew the ...

And to the world, she's always affectionately been known as "Grandma Moses." The much-loved artist, whose 150th birthday is today, began her creative endeavors copying Currier and Ives prints ...

BENNINGTON, Vt. — Grandma Moses has a branding problem. Some critics invoke her name derisively, categorizing her alongside mom, baseball, and apple pie. Art, you know, isn’t supposed to be ...

Always has been. Always will be." —-Anna Mary Robertson, best known as Grandma Moses She began life as a hard-working farm girl and didn’t begin painting seriously until she was 78 years old.

The painting is housed in Lauder’s Neue Galerie in Manhattan, whose name is an homage to Kallir’s Viennese gallery. Grandma Moses — her real name was Anna Mary Robertson Moses — was ...