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Grandma Moses
Anna Mary Robertson Moses, after sixty years of working as an upstate New York farm wife, became celebrated in the international art world as Grandma Moses.
With a palette of pure colors and a true vision, she presented recollections of her girlhood in meticulously painted observations of a long-since-vanished rural America. Her scenes of farm life and holiday revels and her seasonal landscapes abound in charm untouched by sentimentality.
In this sumptuously produced volume, twenty-five of Grandma Moses' finest works are shown in large scale. A number of details enrich the book, offering an opportunity to view her brushwork as though looking closely at the original. Photographs of the artist and her family add yet another dimension.
Individual commentaries address each work, explaining what Moses was trying to do and her methods. Vivid quotations in the artist's own words add another facet to this highly enjoyable book.
With a palette of pure colors and a true vision, she presented recollections of her girlhood in meticulously painted observations of a long-since-vanished rural America. Her scenes of farm life and holiday revels and her seasonal landscapes abound in charm untouched by sentimentality.
In this sumptuously produced volume, twenty-five of Grandma Moses' finest works are shown in large scale. A number of details enrich the book, offering an opportunity to view her brushwork as though looking closely at the original. Photographs of the artist and her family add yet another dimension.
Individual commentaries address each work, explaining what Moses was trying to do and her methods. Vivid quotations in the artist's own words add another facet to this highly enjoyable book.
54 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1997
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March 18, 2020
Color reproductions of 25 oil paintings by Grandma Moses (1860-1961). Her folk art style brought together abstract, paper-doll-like figures (both human and animal) with realistic, detailed landscapes. Indeed, the editor argues, Moses was primarily a landscape painter who felt ill-at-ease handling indoor scenes. Instead, her most representative works populate preternaturally broad landscapes with multitudes of symbolic figures engaged in the community activities of rural America: threshing grain, gathering pumpkins, enjoying sleigh rides, helping a family move, preparing for an oncoming storm, making apple butter, celebrating Christmas, hanging laundry, catching the Thanksgiving turkey.
Untrained in traditional techniques and perspective, Grandma Moses’ paintings often take on the aspect of a quilt—units of activity punctuated by square farmhouses and fields, spread across a wide 2-dimensional plane in which foreground and background command equal attention.
Untrained in traditional techniques and perspective, Grandma Moses’ paintings often take on the aspect of a quilt—units of activity punctuated by square farmhouses and fields, spread across a wide 2-dimensional plane in which foreground and background command equal attention.
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