Christmas At Home is a painting by American folk artist Grandma Moses completed in 1946. Grandma Moses was closely associated with Christmas, in part because for many years Hallmark issued a best-selling line of Moses Christmas cards and in part because that holiday mirrored many of Moses’ own favorite traditions. Like all her work, Moses’ Christmas paintings …
Sugaring Off is a famous painting by folk artist Grandma Moses that was completed in 1943. Grandma Moses did not begin painting until the age of 78 and she is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. This particular painting sold at auction for …
Hoosick Valley by famed folk artist Grandma Moses was painted in 1946. Moses is best-known for treating her paint as if were yarn, as she was an avid sewer in the early years of her life. This particular painting was created to give the sense of an embroidery piece. In Hoosick Valley (From the Window), …
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Apple Butter Making is a famous painting by artist Grandma Moses, whose real name was Anna Mary Robertson. It was first started in 1944 and completed in 1947. It is part of a larger collection of paintings that showcase many of Moses’ memories from her time spent living in Virginia. The house portrayed in the painting is the …
The Old Checkered House In Cambridge Valley was created by folk artist Grandma Moses in 1943. The house is something of a local legend, as it is located on the Cambridge Turnpike and it was an inn where stagecoach drivers had changed horses as far back as the eighteenth century. During the Revolutionary War, the inn …
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