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Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age.
The Old Oaken Bucket, The Last is a 1947 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 86 and signed "Moses". It was sold at Sotheby's in 2006 for US$598,400. [1] It shows a scene of the artist's interpretation of Samuel Woodworth's poem The Old Oaken Bucket, set in a typical Moses winter setting. The figures are ...
This painting was one of forty selected for her to tell her story in her own words in the book Grandma Moses American Primitive: "Away back in 1840, the farms were large, and they had many hired men, to till the land, as they raised all of their food, such as wheat, corn, oats, rhy [sic] and buckwheat and lots of lifestock [sic], horses, cows ...
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The Old Oaken Bucket is a 1945 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 85 and signed "Moses".It has been in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden since 1974.
This painting was one of forty selected for her to tell her story in her own words in the book Grandma Moses American Primitive: "This was a request for Grandma Moses to go to the Big City, New York. Grandma, who had never traveled much, what anticipation, and vexation, what commotion and confusion, at last she is on her way." [4]
Grandma Moses American Primitive was the first popular catalog of works by Grandma Moses by Otto Kallir, published in 1946. Moses’ first solo exhibition had taken place in 1940 "What a Farmwife Painted", at the Galerie St. Etienne in New York. It was organized by Louis J. Caldor and Otto Kallir and since that time Kallir himself had become a ...
The monument and its story were personal for Grandma Moses who lived close by for many years and whose great-grandfather, Archibald Robertson, had been a soldier in the battle. This painting is one of five of Bennington that Grandma Moses painted, three of which are in the Bennington collection.