Grandma Moses Landscape

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Grandma Moses Inspired Landscape

A little bit about Grandma Moses;
Anna Marie Robertson Moses, also known as Grandma Moses was born on September 7, 1916 and died on December 13, 1961.
She was an American folk artist with Primitive landscapes depicting her early years of life. She was born in Greenwich, New York, and she was the third of 10 children. Her father was a farmer of a Flaxmill when she was younger she painted using lemon and grape just to mix colors for her landscapes. She wanted to be a painter as a child, but as she grew up, she was required to work and be a mother and she didn’t start painting until she was 78 years old.
Although, she did use house paint to decorate a fireboard and she embroider pictures for families and friends. All of the classic artforms of folk art. At the age of 76, she developed arthritis which made her embroidery painful so she started painting instead.
My favorite quote from her is one that she wrote at the age of 92, “I was quite small, my father would get me and my brothers white paper by the sheet. He liked to see a straw pictures, it was a penny a sheet and it last longer than candy.”
Her artwork and paintings are iconically American, and they are classified into the art movement primitivism. you can see examples of her work here, here and here and although she started painting in her 70s, she was an extremely prolific painter, CD more than 1500 canvases in the last three decades of her life my favorite part is her glow up where she originally charged 3 to 5 dollars for painting depending on its size keep in mind she started painting in the 40s and then as her fame increased. Her Works were sold for $8000-$10,000. yes, girl! All of her work includes extremely detailed elements of rural life and omitted modernity, focusing on the old way of life.