Her work sold for as much as $3,000 a piece and hung in the homes of some of the art world’s most famous collectors. An estimated 48 million Grandma Moses Christmas cards had been sold in the U ...

Grandma Moses is best known for her winter scenes ... 1,600 paintings in a 20-year career. Her last painting, "The Rainbow," was finished shortly before her death at age 101.

And of course, the Smithsonian houses a number of Moses items: the Smithsonian American Art Museum has two on view, "Christmas" in the Luce Foundation Center on the third floor and "Grandma ...

For frail Anna Mary Robertson Moses, running the farm was pretty hard work. Soon she found she had to rest her back. To occupy her busy fingers, Anna Moses (80) decided to take up painting.

known as "Grandma Moses," died at the age of 101. Born in 1860, she had no formal training in art. Instead, she lived much of her life on a small farm in Eagle Bridge, N.Y. She took up painting in ...

A journalist later writing about Moses reported that her friends sometimes called her “Grandma Moses.” Her art touched people ... In her final work, “Rainbow” (1961), farmers and farmland ...

So was Robert Rauschenberg, now the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (where Grandma Moses made her New York debut in 1939 with three paintings in an exhibition for a limited ...

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 ...

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 TIME ...