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  Grandma Moses

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  Moses, Anna Mary Robertson.
• Moses, Grandma
  Moses, Grandma

  A twentieth-century American artist who painted scenes of farm life; her style, which seems childlike, is a noted example of primitivism. She began to paint in her late seventies, when she was too old for farm work.

Grandma Moses

American  

noun

1. Moses, Anna Mary Robertson.

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Grandma Moses British  

noun

1. the nickname of (Anna Mary Robertson) Moses

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Moses, Grandma Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century American artist who painted scenes of farm life; her style, which seems childlike, is a noted example of primitivism. She began to paint in her late seventies, when she was too old for farm work.

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Grandma Moses

The paintings, which combined Grandma Moses with the textured color fields of Milton Avery cheerfully reflect this duality.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

This is not the New England inscribed in popular memory, from the writings of the American Transcendentalists to the paintings of Grandma Moses or Norman Rockwell.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2017

I think most people believed that for quite a few years, and they accepted it, and made her into some kind of goddess, like Grandma Moses.

From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2016

As we write in Power Years: Grandma Moses didn’t start painting until she was almost 80.

From Time ● Sep. 4, 2013

I pictured the snowflaky, Grandma Moses villages, the reaches of swampland rattling with dried cattails, the ponds where frog and hornpout dreamed in a sheath of ice, and the shivering woods.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath