Grandma Moses at Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Saturday, 27 January 2007 09:41

WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Reynolda House Museum of American Art hosts the exhibition, Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation, from January 27 through April 22, 2007.  Organized by the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, the exhibition includes approximately forty paintings as well as a selection of photographs, artifacts, films of the artist at work, and source material for her art.

Anna Marie Robertson Moses (1860–1961), known to the nation as Grandma Moses, remains one of the most recognized and beloved American painters.  Although she did not paint until 1927, at age sixty-seven, within years she had accumulated accolades and achieved fame.  The exhibition is organized in thematic sections that correlate to her painting as America made the transition from the Great Depression and World War II through the cold war years and relative economic prosperity.  Her images of rural life provided soothing respite from otherwise turbulent times, and fifty years later her vision of the simple life still strikes a resonant chord.

Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation is funded in part by The Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent Federal grant-making agency; New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Endowment for the Arts.  This exhibition was organized by The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York.

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