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Article: `Curious' art of G randma Moses.(Arts And Entertainment)(Art)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 17, 2001
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Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as "Grandma Moses," began her career as a painter and media star. It was an ironic, and ultimately harmful, combination.
Grandma Moses, who lived to age 101, had her first New York gallery show in 1940 at Otto Kallir's Galerie St. Etienne when she was 80. She called it "What a Farm Wife Painted."
A headline writer for the New York World Telegram gushed, "Grandma Moses Just Paints and Makes No Fuss About It." Another wrote in the Washington Daily News, "`Land Sakes,' Says Grandma Moses, 80, as Critics Rave About Her Art."
A retrospective of Moses' work, a traveling exhibition called "Grandma Moses in ...
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