Synopses & Reviews
Anna Mary Robertson Moses ( 1860-1961 ), after 60 years as an upstate New York farm wife, became celebrated in the international art world as Grandma Moses. She is without a doubt the most famous American folk painter of the 20th century, and arguably the greatest.
With a palette of pure colors and a true vision, Grandma Moses presented memories of her girlhood in meticulously painted scenes of a long-since-vanished rural America. Her renderings of farm life and holiday revels and her seasonal landscapes abound in charm untouched by sentimentality. Her work belongs to a long and rich tradition of American folk art.
In this new volume, 25 of Grandma Moses' finest works are reproduced in poster-size colorplates. A number of close-up details, as well as photographs of the artist and her family and vivid quotations in her own words enhance the images.