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Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses" was a renowned American folk artist. She is most often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age.
Moses began painting in her seventies after abandoning a career in embroidery because of arthritis. Louis J. Caldor, a collector, discovered her paintings in a Hoosick Falls, New York drugstore window in 1938. In 1939, an art dealer, Otto Kallir, exhibited some of her work in his Galerie Saint-Etienne in New York. This brought her to the attention of art collectors all over the world, and her paintings were highly sought after. She went on to exhibit her work throughout Europe and in Japan, where her work was particularly well received. She continued her prolific output of paintings, the demand for which never diminished during her lifetime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Grandma'_Moses
I went to http://www.bartelby.com/ to look up an Emily Dickinson poem. On their homepage they always have a birthday for the day and a quote by that individual. Today's birthday was Grandma Moses. To be honest I really don't know much about Grandma Moses. I like her paintings and I knew she started painting at a late age for an artist. I thought it might make an interesting article for two reasons. First because I think the quote is great. I wish more of us could feel this very same way.
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses
Second, because so many of us when we get older decide or think we are unable to do and try new things. It is as if our lives are over and we have no new life, no new freshness or beauty to bring to the world. I have always thought of her as an example of how wrong this idea is. So to Grandma Moses, where ever you are, Happy Birthday!
http://www.gseart.com/moses.html You can find some information and some of her paintings here.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/moses_grandma.html Here is a link to more of her paintings.
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