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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Missouri.” One, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961), a “Housewife. New York,” was a farm woman who at age 78 began painting scenes of rural New England life. Her work had ...