grandma moses

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Moses, Grandma. a US artist who did not begin painting until she was almost 70 years old. Her paintings of life in the American countryside are in the primitive style (=they are very simple, and made to look like children's paintings) (1860-1961). orig. Anna Mary Robertson born Sept. 7, 1860, Greenwich, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 13, 1961, Hoosick Falls, N.Y. U.S. painter. She began to produce embroidery pictures after her husband died in 1927. When arthritis impaired her embroidering, she turned to painting. She had her first exhibition in a drugstore in 1938 at age
She went on to produce more than 1,000 nostalgic, naively executed scenes of turn-of-the-century rural life (e.g., Catching the Thanksgiving Turkey, Over the River to Grandma's House). By 1939 her pictures were being exhibited internationally, and from 1946 they were regularly reproduced on holiday greeting cards
grandma moses

    Hyphenation

    grand·ma Mo·ses

    Turkish pronunciation

    grämä mōzıs

    Pronunciation

    /ˈgramä ˈmōzəs/ /ˈɡræmɑː ˈmoʊzəs/
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