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Article: Grandma Moses: making the most of life.(American painter)
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- Highlights for Children
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- October 1, 1998
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The tiny gray-haired woman walked briskly up the sidewalk to her house in Eagle Bridge, New York. The door flew open. "Grandma," cried her daughter-in-law Dorothy, "if you had been here, you could have sold all your paintings! There was a man here looking for them, and he will be back in the morning to see them." Dorothy had told the man that Grandma had about ten paintings.
Grandma hardly slept that night. She got up early and found nine pictures. She cut one big painting in half and put it in two frames so there would be ten. "I did it so it wouldn't get Dorothy in the doghouse," she explained later.
Grandma's real name was Anna Mary Robertson ...
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... ... Ways" by Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, is included in a major show opening September 12 at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. Grandma Moses, an Eagle Bridge, N.Y., farm wife, died ...
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