Grandma Moses
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Grandma Moses (September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961), whose real name was Anna Mary Robertson, was a renowned American folk and naive (primitive) artist.
Robertson was born in Greenville, New York. She spent most of her life as a farmer's wife and the mother of five children. Her husband was Thomas Salmon Moses, whom she married in 1887.
She began painting in her seventies after abandoning a career in embroidery because of arthritis.
Her artwork was discovered by Louis J. Caldor, a collector who noticed her paintings in a drugstore window in 1938. In 1939 an art dealer named Otto Kallir exhibited some of her work at his Galerie Saint-Etienne in New York City.
President Harry S. Truman presented her with the Women's National Press Club Award for outstanding accomplishment in art in 1949. In 1951, she appeared on See It Now, a television program hosted by Edward R. Murrow.
Grandma Moses painted mostly scenes of rural life.
External links
Smithsonian article on Grandma Moses (http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues01/apr01/moses.html)