Grandma Moses
Grandma Moses - a woman with vision
When I was a young girl, my mom used to talk about someone she called Grandma Moses. For years, I thought it was the grandma of one of her childhood friends. Grandma Moses was a beloved American primitive artist whose first painting was not released until she was 76! If ever you need encouragement to carry on, or to use your God-given talents, read the story of Grandma Moses and be inspired. This lens is about an amazing painter who didn't let disabling arthritis quench her creativity or her...

Grandma Moses: Secrets of Success
A Story of Yankee Knowhow
Long before she become an art sensation, Grandma Moses lived a life built of making a success out of challenges. She had that Yankee spirit of early America that we think of as "can-do". Her paintings were filled with the story of this part of America's life that we all most love: simple pleasures, hard work, and a good dose of fun. Family and farm, the wide open spaces, and joy in the everyday things of life were her motifs. She was to folk art painting what Laura Ingalls Wilder was to child...

Grandma Moses Holiday Paintings
Traditional American Holidays Through Grandma Moses Eyes
One of the things that endeared Grandma Moses, as Anna Mary Robertson Moses was known, was her ebullient painting of tasks and times that were important to the hearts of Americans. She masterfully brushed her naive paintings in an almost childlike way, but filled with pictured memories of the many years of a lifetime of living. She painted scenes that in her time were no longer a part of the daily existence of most Americans,but that harked back to their distant memories of their own "Grandma...