Grandma Moses No Boundries

Grandma Moses was the nickname of the famous folk painter Anna Mary Robertson Moses.  This amazing woman was born in 1860 in the midst of the Civil War.  She grew up in rural New York one of ten children.  Hard work was nothing new to Grandma Moses, at age 12 she worked as a hired girl in a neighboring farm until she married her husband Thomas Moses.  They worked a farm in Virginia and raised five children together.  Later the family would move to New York and had a farm out there. After her husband died in 1927, she continued working her farm with her oldest son until it became to difficult for her and then she moved to a daughter's home in 1936.  Always hard at work she didn't have a lot of time to devote to art.  She liked to make worsted needlepoint pieces depicting life as it was when she was growing up but when this became too difficult she switched to painting.  Her first piece was done when she was 58 years old but she didn't devote herself to art 'till she was 70.  She went from having her pieces of art sold for a small amount in a drugstore, to having her art displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York to becoming a national sensation at the age of 79.  She is credited to having created upwards of 1500 pieces of art. To read more about her click here.