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Grandma Moses, born Anna Mary Robertson, was born December 7, 1860, in Greenwich, New York. She did not begin painting until she was in her 70's, when arthritis made it too difficult for her to embroider. She never had formal training in art. The subject of much of her work was rural working life, inspired by her life lived on a farm. She received a big break when art collector Louis J. Caldor saw her work in a local store and bought her whole collection. The following year, in 1939, some of her paintings were in included in an exhibit of unknown artists, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. She went on to have a one-woman show at the New York department store Gimbels.
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller proclaimed September 7th as Grandma Moses Day in 1960, in honor of Grandma Moses’s 100th birthday. Grandma Moses died December 31, 1961, at age 101, and is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery in Hoosick Falls, New York
CBS Sunday Morning feature on Grandma Moses
